Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On July 30, you said, "I'll do some learning about scenarios and goal
seek and let you know if I feel qualified to take a shot a writing
that chapter." Have you had a chance to do more about that?
I'm afraid I haven't done that yet. Let me explore it a little to see
what's involved, and I'll let you know whether I feel I can learn enough
to write about it.
Have you heard anything from Rick Barnes as to whether he has done
anything on the Creating Formulas and Using Functions chapter? If he
hasn't done anything, I'd be willing to start working on that one.
I haven't heard from Rick lately, but on 28 July he wrote:
"I have a draft that is over half done and it is..."Using Formulas and
Functions" (Chapter 3)... I will start on it in a couple of days...
I'll have it in a couple of weeks...I promise!"
Sounds like I shouldn't do anything on this right now then, since it
sounds like Rick at least has a draft in progress. Hopefully we'll hear
from him soon to find the status. If he can't devote any more time to it
right now, I'd be willing to take over from where he left off. Unlike
the scenarios and goal seek topics, formulas and functions IS something
I feel I know enough about to take on, without having to do a lot of
background learning first.
At this point I think the most helpful thing you could do, if you feel
up to it, is to draft the missing bits of the *DataPilot* chapter. See
my note yesterday on this. I've also left notes in the chapter itself.
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/calc/feedback/0306_data_pilot_27Jul06_PK_22Oct06_JHW.odt
--Jean
I've obtained the draft and read through it quickly, reading all of your
comments in the process. I'll see what I can do to fill in the missing
parts of this chapter. I used Pivot Tables quite a bit in Excel,
although I've never used DataPilot in Calc. But hopefully once I get
into this topic, I'll be able to contribute to this chapter.
Dick
