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20 YEARS LATER BUT DEFINITELY NOT 20 YEARS GREATER!
I'm so disgusted with you Microsoft. After 20 years of learning how to use Excel moderately well you now force me out of Excel 2003 which you have bastardised so much it's now impossible to use! You've changed it so much it's useless to me! The lack of respect shown for your clients/customers who put in the time to learn how to use it now find ourselves with an unworkable system. This is an absolute disregard and waste of our time. I have wasted this weekend and been so turned off attempting to achieve what I had completed in 2003 Excel which I stayed with due to the decision YOU MADE to 'choke' Excel in accessing and using RAM - without telling us - which decided me to stay with 2003 for 20 years!! Good old faithful! But now your updates have crashed it so that I can no longer use it. I have had to change to 365 which is now the most screwed up convoluted and ridiculous program by comparison that it is a waste of time to have to re-learn a program which I could already use effectively. You might think 365 is a jewel but everyone I know who uses it think it's junk and hates it with a vengeance. Most would happily go back but instead we'll probably just complain and head for Linux instead. They care to have happy users! You don't even answer so I'm even unsure as to why I waste my time except that I am so angry I need to vent my disagreement. My projects are now stymied after 20 years work thanks to your stupidity, ignorance and lack of thought for your world-based users! And your charts, what used to work may as well be written in a foreign language...and WHY! I wish I could let loose and tell what I really think, but I'd have to drop my standards so far that even I would be disgusted by it! Not happy Microsoft! I'D HAPPILY PAY YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM ME AND LEAVE ME WITH MY OLD PROGRAM!
- ecovonreinIron ContributorStrange rant. I am not aware that anything has been deprecated. In fact, even some bugs from 2003 are still around... 😞
- mathetesSilver ContributorIs it safe to assume you've also stuck with VHS, totally mechanical cars, film cameras, or were lenses always a complication so you remain committed to pin-hole daguerreotype?
- Detlef_LewinSilver Contributor
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garryjoiner wrote:But now your updates have crashed it so that I can no longer use it. I have had to change to 365
I do not understand this part.
What updates for Excel 2003? There are no upates for Excel 2003 - except maybe security fixes. But I'm not sure about that.