Re: MS Excel Working As Designed

On 1/17/25 6:05 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

Nope.  There is no defense.  Microslop Excel is FUBAR.
It's only because none of its idiot adherents, like Tyrone,
have a use for dates before 1901

Obviously the likes of "DFS" working for MS are the culprit.
But the way Excel should be used, and is used by those who have a serious use for that type of tool, will avoid such blunders anyway. Manipulating dates is always a sensitive work. Like measuring size. Temperature, etc., and in serious work one does not leave it to anyone else. You _code_ it for your own use.
Parts of Excel are designed for secretaries' use, so a secretary type of sub-code-monkey like "DFS" must've been given the task to create. And blunders won't even discovered by secretaries or "DFS" lamebrained individuals, thy never encounter the flops that some other "DFS" airheads have left behind in Excel.
Excel is the best product MS has had. From the beginning, I think, it was the Excel that forced businesses to grudgingly accept Windows on their computers. The reasons for that are also obvious. MS Word doesn't even come close. Businesses need something that solves and provides for their everyday needs. Letters and communications are just before and after the fact activities. The heart of it is done by using Excel.