Can this machine handle XL2K?

[Ed]

I found myself downgrading my computer - my other one died and this one was
free! It's a Compaq Deskpro 2000, 133MHz, 32mb RAM. Do you think it can
handle Excel 2000?

Ed

 

[Andy Wiggins]

Have you tried loading Excel 2000 to see if it works?

 

[Chip Pearson]

Yeah, the computer can probably handle Excel 2000, but it will be
SLLLLOOOOWWW. What OS are you going to run on it?


--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Harlan Grove]

Ed wrote...

I found myself downgrading my computer - my other one died and this one was
free! It's a Compaq Deskpro 2000, 133MHz, 32mb RAM. Do you think it can
handle Excel 2000?

Running under Windows 95 or NT4 it may be bearable. Running under any
more recent and memory gorging version of Windows it may be possible
but it'll be very unpleasant.

 

[aaron.kempf]

i would reccomend never installing excel on any machine regardless or
hardware or software available.

use a DATABASE or a REPORTING PROGRAM instead of recreating the same
report by hand week in and week out

 

[Harlan Grove]

(e-mail address removed) wrote...

i would reccomend never installing excel on any machine regardless or
hardware or software available.

use a DATABASE or a REPORTING PROGRAM instead of recreating the same
report by hand week in and week out

Where did the OP say he was he was using Excel to create reports? If
this were a work PC, don't you think (well, no, *YOU* don't, but I'll
stick to this rhetorical construct) the OP's IT department would
provide a machine newer than 8 years old?

It's very likely this is for the OP's own use. There are reasons for
sane people to use spreadsheets for personal use. There are darned few
people who'd waste their own time producing personal reports. You may,
but you're begging for institutionalization.

And you're beginning to waste as much time posting the same insipid
drivel week in and week out that you accuse Excel users of doing. Learn
to make an intelligent argument for a change!

 

[aaron.kempf]

all you excel guys use excel to create the same report week in and week
out

try to get some real work done; learn databases kiddies

 

[Harlan Grove]

Another witty comeback, completely devoid of any thought or revlevance
to the thread's topic.

 

[aaron.kempf]

harlan

get a life spreadshit baby

 

[aaron.kempf]

i mean.. other than

a) enter data
b) report on data

what the hell would he be using excel for?

excel is a disease; you excel people should be lined up and shot
what a waste of labor hours

 

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[Harlan Grove]

(e-mail address removed) wrote...

i mean.. other than

a) enter data
b) report on data

what the hell would he be using excel for?

This really is all you can think of, isn't it?

 

[aaron.kempf]

harlan

yeah.. that's all that you monkeys do.. and you don't even know it!

 

[aaron.kempf]

there is never a single reason to use a spreadsheet. reporting is more
efficient using a tool like crystal reports, access reports.. or just
plain SQL..

and data entry in Excel sucks because there isn't true cell validation.
Access and SQL Server (and the free version of SQL Server.. MSDE--
great choice for beginners that dont want to spend $50 for software or
$2000 for a database server) allow you to really have control of your
data.

would you rather have 10 copies of the same data; each sorted and
filtered different ways?

or having one centralized place (for each user) to store, use, run
data...

you sit there and use all these super-complex excel macros to do things
that are simple in the database world.. you sit there and make a new
copy of the file for each month; making it impossible to verify..

STORE DATA IN A DATABASE USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR REPORTING AND UNINSTALL
EXCEL FROM EVERY MACHINE IN THE WORLD.

 

[Harlan Grove]

(e-mail address removed) wrote...

yeah.. that's all that you monkeys do.. and you don't even know it!

True or not, you couldn't recognize anything else.

 

[Harlan Grove]

(e-mail address removed) wrote...
....

STORE DATA IN A DATABASE USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR REPORTING AND UNINSTALL
EXCEL FROM EVERY MACHINE IN THE WORLD.

And whatever you do, don't tell Aaron the nice men in the white coats
are just behind him.