Because Office 2010 is annoying.
OK kids, in preparation for possible consulting work, I need to get a 'proper' office suite. iWork won't cut it, and like it or not, pretty much the whole industry uses MS Office.
We have Office 2010 here. It makes me want to cry sometimes. When it comes to the ribbon, I fall into the h8r camp, but the ribbon is here to stay.
But for those of you who've been using O2013, and specifically XL2013, I'd appreciate your feedback on one of my most hated bugbears in XL2010. I only realised that things might have changed when I downloaded an evaluated copy of O2011 (Mac) and found XL2011 gets this bit right (although it's had its data analysis innards ripped out.)
The bugbear involves adding error bars to data points on a graph. Attached is a small XL file to play with, and screenshots of how XL2010 and XL2011 handle things.
In XL2010 you style the data series. Then you add the error bars. But in order to do that you have to click on a different tab in the ribbon ('Layout'), then click 'Error Bars', 'More Error Bars Options'. From the dialogue box, 'Verical Error Bars', 'Custom' and specify the error from columns D and E (depending on the data selected, natch).
And even then XL adds feckin' horizontal bars as well :@
In XL2011, things are a whole lot easier. Error bars are just selected from the same dialogue that you use to format the data series (and series order can also be changed here!)
So, gentle forumites, has XL2013 learned the ways of grace and good UI design from XL2011, or is it still as retarded as its buck-toothed, slack-jawed predecessor?
OH FUCK, WHY CAN'T I UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS?
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