Terrible Excel Ruined My Chances of Graduation

The most wonderful thing happened. I was performing a 3 year extended
forecast for an end-of-the-year business class project that I have been
working on for eons and in a moment it was gone, saved, and the wonderful
"Can't Undo" was smiling at me from my edit menu. I clicked and dragged to
fill out formulas across columns, then tried to click back to A1, and
basically my row 1 filled columns A and B down every single row Excel offers
filled with the words I had typed there "Financials" "3 Year Extended
Forecast". It is gone. I tried to save another file, and searched it
desperately for my data, but it is gone. I will -never- NEVER purchase
another Microsoft Office software package and will simply opt for the
OpenOffice Solution. I have always been an Microsoft advocate and have been
pleased with the quality of its products until this point. This was not a
user error, this is the fault of your programmers. As a newly employed
consultant, I will also ensure that none of my global clients ever purchase a
Microsoft Office license. This event makes it crystal clear that just shy of
complete ineptitude, Microsoft's inability to foresee problems in the
user-experience is astounding. Excel "Can't Undo" it's own glitch and the
auto-saved 'hidden' versions... gone. Kaput once I closed the program in
frustration.

AND YOU WANT TO CHARGE ME $35 TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT SO YOU CAN TELL ME THAT
THERE IS NO FIX. Insane.

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.... And I wouldn't employ you as a consultant, if having worked on a project
for eons, you didn't (apparently) have backups/versions of your work!

A hard lesson but learn from it!

"David" wrote:

> The most wonderful thing happened. I was performing a 3 year extended
> forecast for an end-of-the-year business class project that I have been
> working on for eons and in a moment it was gone, saved, and the wonderful
> "Can't Undo" was smiling at me from my edit menu. I clicked and dragged to
> fill out formulas across columns, then tried to click back to A1, and
> basically my row 1 filled columns A and B down every single row Excel offers
> filled with the words I had typed there "Financials" "3 Year Extended
> Forecast". It is gone. I tried to save another file, and searched it
> desperately for my data, but it is gone. I will -never- NEVER purchase
> another Microsoft Office software package and will simply opt for the
> OpenOffice Solution. I have always been an Microsoft advocate and have been
> pleased with the quality of its products until this point. This was not a
> user error, this is the fault of your programmers. As a newly employed
> consultant, I will also ensure that none of my global clients ever purchase a
> Microsoft Office license. This event makes it crystal clear that just shy of
> complete ineptitude, Microsoft's inability to foresee problems in the
> user-experience is astounding. Excel "Can't Undo" it's own glitch and the
> auto-saved 'hidden' versions... gone. Kaput once I closed the program in
> frustration.
>
> AND YOU WANT TO CHARGE ME $35 TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT SO YOU CAN TELL ME THAT
> THERE IS NO FIX. Insane.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc