🚀 go-pugleaf

On May 20, 12:49 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...@nezumi.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
> > Martin Brown wrote:
> >> Joerg wrote:
> >>> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:38:48 -0700, Joerg
> >>>> <notthisjoerg...@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
>
> >>>>> I have Excel. "An unknown error occurred", the usual meaningful MS
> >>>>> error message :-(
>
> >> There are plenty of those. I think they learnt the style from IBM.
>
> >> Even worse when it just dies or stops responding spontaneously. At
> >> least these days it doesn't usually take the OS with it although I
> >> suspect XL2007 took down Vista on my portable last week.
>
> >> First time I have seen Vista completely dead in the water. Stopped
> >> responding to the keyboard and then shortly after I tried to close
> >> XL2007 the mouse pointer stopped with the pointer still on the close X.
>
> >> Being a portable I had to wait for the battery to die. No reset button :(
>
> > On many laptops holding down the power button for several seconds resets
> > the box. I tend to stay with older software where I can.
>
> In this particular instance it was dead with a capital D. Absolutely
> nothing worked (not the off switch, numlock or suspend on close) and the
> display was frozen in time. I wondered if there had been a hardware
> failure, but it recovered after the battery went flat.
>
> > Saves a little
> > in cost but the main reason is that older generally means more reliable
> > when it comes to software or OS. And Vista will not enter these here
> > premises ;-)
>
> Unfortunately, I have some customers already on Vista. It isn't all that
> bad, but it isn't a noticeable improvement over XP. And it is slower.
>
> XL2007 is a complete crock of shit and best avoided though. There is a
> bun fight between the Vista & XL development teams over searching
> directories with wildcards (it doesn't work properly in XL2007 VBA and a
> commonly used method has been withdrawn unilaterally breaking lots of
> code). The suggested work around is a joke and only works on Vista.
>
>
>
> >>> Well, it reads all other files just fine.
>
> >> Chances are something is wrong with the file. You could try the XL
> >> viewer (free download from MS) it is somewhat more error tolerant than
> >> the main application (or a clone that will open XL workbooks). If it
> >> opens copy and paste the stuff it can decode into a new worksheet.
>
> > Well, I know what's in there anyhow since I am a PG&E customer :-(
>
> PG&E ? Sorry don't recognise the acronym. Pacific something or other?
>

Greedy and Expensive.