Readers, There was an interesting discussion which seemed to be about using accounting principles/conventions with computer software.
Clearly the original poster forgot to dispense with traditional thought processes and think critically about how new tools (first the computer, then more specifically open source software) offers the opportunity to develop new methods for solving problems. We read the all-too-common scenario: an m$ fan wanting to use LO as an m$ clone without learning anything new or assessing whether there is a better way of doing things. As always, such people want open source software users to help them for free. Please reconsider and revert to using m$; the fact that the problem was solved using m$ proves this option. m$ users, please take the time to do your homework, research the alternatives before asking for open source software to adopt the same behaviour, mentality and sometimes inefficient process to performing tasks as m$. The example of organising identical data types into multiple spreadsheets is so common, primarily because the average "office" personnel is not introduced (nor willing to accept) to the power of databases. Realistically, we cannot expect someone due to retire soon to suddenly change, but the next generation should be encouraged to be open minded to using new ideas. By the way, thank you for the hyperlink to the data pilot functions, but should this type of functionality be performed by learning how to use relational database queries? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted