There are HUNDREDS of thousands of us who have and still use Lotus 123 even though we also have and use Open Office and the Microsoft Office applications. OOO Calc does Insert > Link to External Data. This possible new client was talking about using /FCAN in 1-2-3 - I haven't found an equivalent in Excel - Excel appears not to think that way at all. If you drive OOO/Excel like 1-2-3 there's a lot you're missing out on. When I made the conversion back in 1993, I went cold turkey - essentially stop thinking 1-2-3 for a week, only use Excel for a week and then you break the habit. 1-2-3 would hair trigger our fingers to press + to begin a formula, the modern spreadsheets start a formula with =. We had no GUI, no mouse - the slash commands were so well learnt that Lotus wanted to patent them and Borland Quattro, VP Planner and a whole industry had to discuss whether UI could be patented.ġ-2-3 does not at all think like Excel/OOO - a simple idea for comparison is that for working with blocks of cells in Lotus, you carry out the menu actions and then select your block whilst in OOO/Excel, being a GUI, you select the block and then carry out the menu action. Lotus slash commands were ingrained into our psyche in the 1980s. This discussion may show the generation gap - between 1-2-3 users of 1980s and OOO / Excel users of 2008. I just came across this posting - I was searching for Lotus 123/DOS commands for a possible new client.
Follow the link of my last post to register your request.Īlso, please answer Acknak's question and let me know whether the use of the "Alt" key can be consider as an equivalent of the "/" command or not.
Development team still has many bugs or features to fix to make the product super user-friendly, so you should not have too much hope to see the "/" command implemented soon. You are talking about THOUSANDS of Users of Lotus 123, while in its first week the latest version of OOo has been downloaded THREE MILLION times. But OOo developers - who are not officially reading this forum by the way - also have the rights to NOT implement a feature that will concern only a few Users. Squenson wrote:You are right, you own the right to keep using Lotus 123 as long as you want.