[D-community-offtopic] users and computers [was: Re: Customized Debian - Was: ...]

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:50:51AM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2013 4:55:53 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > Bah, my own colleagues are overwriting formulas with values and then
> > wonder why the sheet doesn't work anymore.
> >
> > [1] this is only half joke, I've actually seen it several times.
> 
> Sounds like an opportunity ;-)
> 
> Maybe spreadsheets need a warning mechanism that warns the user when he is 
> about overwrite a formula with a value, tells him that doing so will probably 
> prevent the spreadsheet from working properly in the future, tells him there 
> is a more appropriate way to make the change he wants to do (ideally, telling 
> him where to make such a change ;-), and finally, forcing him to confirm he 
> really wants to do that.

AFAIR, you can "lock" cells/rows/columns.

The worst thing is when people use a spreadsheet as a database, and then
give you the job of updating it!

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