why should we use excel 6

[MALY]

I would like to ask all of you who use excel as your spreadsheet for designing, how would u rate excel for structural calc.? and how i can start? is there any book would u recommend? i've been using mathcad and tedd's, but i have many excel applications i used as well, excel seems easy but doesn't check units as the other programs i use, please help

 

[yakpol]

Excel is the best spreadsheet program available, and I thank Microsoft for dominating the office software market, bringing a standard to the wide range of users. The other spreadsheets convert Excel ALMOST right, occasionally this almost brings the structures down.

 

[melone]

Skyhigh, I am very interested in what you are saying. Please give a couple of DETAILED examples of Excel's inaccuracies.

 

[GregLocock]

=MOD(12.3,(12.3/10))

also the stats have a bad rep (with people who sell alternatives) Cheers

Greg Locock

 

[Skyhigh]

Greglocock,
Thanks for the pointer to scilab. I love it! and also the nice thing about is, it runs under MS windows and Linux. Try OO is is a well structured program, also SMS Star office but only v6.0. Also look at Xandros for an OS or Lindows if you like windows drivers.

 

[gearguru]

OO is the new name for the Star Office. It is not anymore maintained by SUN. I experienced some problems with it trying to open some Excel created *.xls files, the graphs did not show properly.
For obvious reasons I use it only at home, for my private stuff.
gearguru

 

[drain]

Skyhigh / GregLocock

I can't access scilab.org

I get error message: forbidden access. Why?

 

[GregLocock]

I get the same. Looks like it redirects you to a private server, now. 20 seconds with google gives

http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/scilab/en/install/

Cheers

Greg Locock