[Bush2000]

I don't agree. I like Excel. I've used it as the primary tool for tracking $150 million construction jobs in the past. I do wish it would allow more than 65,000 rows, though.

Have you tried creating multiple worksheets and linking one sheet to another? Would solve your row problem.

[Fierce Allegiance]

That was kind of facetious. We only installed 15,000 caissons, so I really only needed 15,000 rows.

[chronic_loser]

Actually, it was excel that started me looking away from MS. Back in the day when OS/2 was, I was writing and testing commodity trading programs. In those days, I was a floor trader, making a market in wheat and wheat options. I would load up OHLC for the different contract months and try doing "what if" analysis on several years worth of contract data. I went out and bought 64 meg of ram (paid 600 dollars for it and thought I STOLE it!) and loaded up excel on windoze. It was PAINFUL watching the memory swap out. Some of the formulas had to have 15 minutes to run. I picked up OS/2 and watched it pick up THE WHOLE DATA SET and crunch what used to take 4 hours worth of calcs in about 15 mins.

That started me seeing the serious deficiencies in the product MS was putting out, and then what Ballmer did to OS/2 (almost identical to what they are trying now with linux, btw), combined with the kind of wholesale theft of others property, convinced me that MS is simply evil.

Besides being evil, they are lazy, bloated, and more concernend with revenue than quality. When a company gets to that point, they are on the way out. It may not be linux which knocks them off, but it needs to be someone. They quit being "innovative" a long long time ago.