Re: Office Survey: Which version do you use?

[Don Guillett <donaldb@281.COM>]

>>one of our online Excel courses
Only ONE? I have a corporate customer who sends a file of mine out to their
salesman. I have had MANY calls asking why it won't work, only to find out that
they do not have excel. One was a Regional Manager....

Don Guillett
SalesAid Software
Granite Shoals, TX
donaldb@281.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hawley" <davidh@OZGRID.COM>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: Office Survey: Which version do you use?


> LOL!
>
> I had a user take one of our online Excel courses, then email us saying they
were "having problems"
> with our Workbook examples. I asked if they could give me some details on the
problems, to which
> they replied "they were unable to open them" after downloading. After another
2 or 3 emails back and
> forth, it turned out they didn't have Microsoft Office OR Excel installed. We
gave them a refund!
>
> Kind Regards
> Dave Hawley
> www.OzGrid.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Green" <martin.green4@BTINTERNET.COM>
> To: <EXCEL-G@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Office Survey: Which version do you use?
>
>
> You may be running at the cutting edge in Oz Dave, but here in the UK we are
> a bit slower to embrace new technology. Earlier this year I was asked if I
> was available to train an "Introduction to Windows 3.11" course for a
> government organisation in London. I guess they were waiting for Microsoft
> to iron the bugs out of Windows 95 before they committed themselves. They
> pulled out before the course, so I presume the yard sale raised enough cash
> for them to upgrade. The same organisation was still using Internet Explorer
> 3 until recently. Their (outsourced) IT support people reckoned that IE6 did
> not offer sufficient security!
>
> Martin (proud to be British - I think)
>
> Martin Green
> e-mail: mailto:martin@fontstuff.com
> web: http://www.fontstuff.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Dave Hawley
> Sent: 25 July 2003 10:31
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> Subject: Re: Office Survey: Which version do you use?
>
>
> Martin
>
> Office 4.x
>
> That would be an Abacus right :o)
>
> Kind Regards
> Dave Hawley
> www.OzGrid.com
> Have an Excel Question?
> http://ozgrid.com/forum/index.php
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Green" <martin.green4@BTINTERNET.COM>
> To: <EXCEL-G@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:23 PM
> Subject: Office Survey: Which version do you use?
>
>
> As a writer, trainer and developer I am interested in how many people use
> the various different versions of Microsoft Office (or how long can I
> continue to make a living out of VBA!). I come across a lot of people still
> using Office 97, and the uptake of Office XP seems quite high, but that's
> only my impression. I can't find a survey on the web so I'm conducting my
> own. If you would like to participate you can do so on my homepage at
> http://www.fontstuff.com where I will publish the results as soon I have a
> meaningful number of votes.
>
> Please don't send your votes to the list!
>
> I just want to know which version you use. If you have more than one (I
> currently run three!) which do you use most (it might not necessarily be
> yout favourite)? If you use one version at home and another at work, vote
> for them both.
>
> I have cross-posted this to the Access-L, Excel-L, Excel-G and WORD-PC lists
> so I apologise to those of you who have received multiple copies!
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
> Martin Green
> e-mail: mailto:martin@fontstuff.com
> web: http://www.fontstuff.com
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