How are emails handled at your workplace?

[fhdz]

What other spreadsheet programs have you used?

I can't speak for HVC, obviously, but I've used several different versions of Excel plus the spreadsheet program from OpenOffice (which is nice).

[garbon]

Quattro Pro for DOS  :-*

[Iormlund]

Seriously. I'd be super slow at my job if I didn't know many of them.

Let me put it this way: three people in our department know how to handle pivots in Excel. When wanting to freeze the header rows on a sheet most people choose "split screen" instead of freezing panes. Data functions or the difference between formatting numbers as text or leaving them as is are lost on most people. I will not talk about macros or functions, because no one uses them.

Bear in mind that were are the FINANCE department. Being able to create a when/if statement with three or more functions makes me practically a god among them when it comes to Excel.

Then again I notice again and again that I'm the only one regularly wondering when faced with repetitive, manual tasks if there's not a way of doing it easier or automatically.

Others mostly counter that they don't have time to bother with that and that the gain wouldnot be worth the effort.

Too true. I find myself using scripting a lot when using Excel, even if I'm just a newbie when it comes to Office products.
For example, due to a networking catastrophe in one of our solar farms, we currently have to shift through 115k lines of power plant production data each day to check they are valid, and correct them otherwise. If we had to do it the Monoriu way it would take the whole engineering department a week. Nothing else would get done.
So I wrote, in a couple hours, a simple macro that filters all that stuff in 20 minutes. The few lines left are dealt with by just one guy in a few more minutes.


As for mail, I don't receive that much since I don't deal with the economic side of the business. Most of my mail comes from my fellow mates at the department. From time to time I get some from clients. They prefer the immediacy of the phone when pestering us.

[vinraith]

What other spreadsheet programs have you used?

I can't speak for HVC, obviously, but I've used several different versions of Excel plus the spreadsheet program from OpenOffice (which is nice).

I'm personally a fan of gnumeric. I also quite liked Origin, back when I had access to it. Then again, what I'm using spreadsheets for is something rather different than what your typical office worker is using them for, and tastes are bound to vary as a result.

[Legbiter]

Our family company receives about 10 non-penile related emails a day. I sometimes sweat that.  :-[

[Syt]

As for mail, I don't receive that much since I don't deal with the economic side of the business. Most of my mail comes from my fellow mates at the department. From time to time I get some from clients. They prefer the immediacy of the phone when pestering us.

About 90% of our email traffic is in house, but we're spread throughout the world, so it's our main means of communication with other offices.

[saskganesh]

I received a vacation email from a  government employee once.

it went something like this:

" I will be on vacation from December16 to January 16 th. On my return, I will delete ALL emails. "

I thought he was a genius.

A month-long vacation ... I guess he *must* have been a gov't employee. 

or a teacher. they get summers off.

[Ed Anger]

Our family company receives about 10 non-penile related emails a day. I sometimes sweat that.  :-[