Hi Brian, I'd love to see your article. Hope the Truro trip goes well. Lawrence Brian Cowell wrote:
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]/ Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; e> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- 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
