Google| Subject | Re: spreadsheet ergonomics |
| From | Snit |
| Date | 04/03/2017 23:16 (04/03/2017 14:16) |
| Message-ID | <D50809B9.9C89B%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Follows | owl |
| Followups | owl (5h & 13m) > Snit |
On 4/3/17, 1:54 PM, in article bajz8v94.ab8@rooftop.invalid, "owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid>wrote:
owlYou type the number but it is not "accepted" until you leave the cell or otherwise tell the program you are done altering it.
Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>wrote:Snitowl
On 4/3/17, 12:38 PM, in article hjguc8892a.a@rooftop.invalid, "owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid>wrote:owlSnit
Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>wrote:Snitowl
On 4/2/17, 9:12 PM, in article z9b003gaew.hy@rooftop.invalid, "owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid>wrote:
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now.
And then try to type between the updates? And then the updates are not happening in apparent real time, right?
I admit I could be wrong about that... if so I would love to see it.
But all of this setting refresh rates and more is showing what I have been talking about -- it is a kludge to try to do what you can do trivially with other tools (as shown in this video I already posted for you):
<https://youtu.be/V2bRLDuaVOk>
For whatever reason I clicked off of the cells to "finalize" them in the video. Can also hit enter or tab (and other options). No need to even leave the table.
What does "finalize" mean? Clarify what all keystrokes or mouse clicks are necessary for all linked tables to update.
I understand: you are on Linux and are fearful of unknown websites. :)Snitowl
And here is that spreadsheet where you can do what I show right now:
<https://www.icloud.com/numbers/040IoTN2lqc4MhnA0sNpm6zpg#Kids_RPG_Rules_-_M agic_System>OR <https://goo.gl/vOFudM>
That might be a virus for all I know.
Seriously, even if it was you would be immune... and it is not from an unknown source, or untested.
Need. No. But why not have the logical separations be separate visually and logically? What is the benefit to combining them? And what about different widths? I talk about that some here:owlSnitowlNumbers -- updating a sheet with data from a completely separate file.Snit
Well, this whole thing is a work around to try to emulate what Numbers does easily... have multiple tables all on one sheet
And the question is why are you doing that anyway when you can just use different sections of one sheet for the work?
Why do it that way when you are not limited to it? Why not have each logical section be its own table?
Because it doesn't need to be separated.
<https://youtu.be/VzVKlou6byU>
People who use spreadsheets generally care about them being easier to update and main and move things around.Snitowl
Makes it easier to update and maintain and move things around anyway... and table rows from one table do not effect the width of other data, etc.
Who cares about that?
About 1/2 of 1 percent of the population. Your way is like have a 200 acre farm and never leaving the front porch.What? And you can do it all in one table if you want... but, again, why would you want to be limited to that?
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Run the file? You mean open it in Numbers. Sure. The risk is very tiny. Compare that to the risk of someone following your suggestions to merely rename an open file... if they do not know what that are doing they could easily and repeatedly lose data.Snitowl
It is running a spreadsheet. And it is from a known, trusted source.
I thought you stipulated an untrusted source. You did specify that you did not really know what the file did. So would you run a Numbers spreadsheet from an untrusted source?
-- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger.
They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.
<https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308>
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