Colin, Ray, Tim et al Thanks for all the inputs.
We are off to Truro in the morning, with the caravan (without the Morgan) for a fortnight. So will investigate matrices when we get back. On another topic; I did an article 'The Apparent Speed of Wheels on TV' for '*Miscellany*' that was not published. Would anyone like me to put it on here? Cheers, Brian On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Colin Shearring < [email protected]> wrote: > Apologies Brian but only just got back in today > > We have been moving the MOG down from Sotmogshire to the south coast > having at last had an offer (a low one at that but at least its an offer) > on the house > > LIke you I used to use Lotus and before that Supercalc and still find > things in excel made difficult that in Lotus were simple > > As others have said Open Office is a package worth considering - I have > it on the MAcPro > > > Work dictates excel and I have all my daily reports running from the > mainframe databases as extracts into Access and then link the queries into > excel > > The ability to program the macros in VBA does mean that you can tailor > things to make life easy ( as long as you are doing the same task over and > over again) > > Push one button each day and I have all my performance figures > Push another and every hour I get an update on the warehouse performance - > as my team found out to their cost when one night they decided to take > things easy and I am sat at home monitoring them :-) > > Best Regards > > > Colin > > > > On 12 May 2012, at 11:04, Brian Cowell wrote: > > Colin et al > > I used to use Lotus to invert large matrices but have never mastered it > using Excel. Any clues? > > Brian of SpotMog > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Colin Shearring < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yes its scandalous that not all of us bought a Morgan so we could spend >> hours underneath it. >> What next a test to prove worthiness of ownership >> Perhaps only those of us who have advanced excel skills should be >> allowed to operate PC's ;-) >> Come on guys - Miscellany content is one thing but criticising the wrong >> sort of people for owning a Morgan >> We all have different reasons for buying the car - mine was a 30 year >> dream coming to fruition and the fact that my wife wanted an open top >> sports car and the Honda and BMW dealers treated her as if she didn't exist. >> She then saw a Morgan and said now thats what a real sports car should >> look like and the rest is history result one happy man ! >> >> And I certainly wont apologise for not having the skills that many have >> >> Colin > > ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
