"Improvements"
Feb. 29th, 2012 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerI really, really, really HATE autosave you can't turn off. It's in the new version of TextEdit. More connected to this post, it's in Numbers.
For some reason, Numbers went wonky while I was doing some important tax work, and started making improper responses to inputs, whether from mouse or keyboard. As a last offense, it was clearing cells no matter what I did. It would clear a cell of data, then move to the next cell, and if I tried to do anything else, it would clear that second cell and move to a third. It finally crashed. I entered a rather rude response to the automatic report in the field asking what I was doing, I'm afraid.
When I restarted Numbers and reopened the spreadsheet, I found it had autosaved just before crashing. So the data will have to be looked up again from the original source.
I'm so mad my head and chest hurt. I've been fighting this thing's eccentricities for days, trying to fill out a spreadsheet I wrote years ago in Excel for doing my taxes. Please, please, someone bring back Excel (or a reasonable facsimile, which Numbers is not) before I die of sheer exasperation!
For some reason, Numbers went wonky while I was doing some important tax work, and started making improper responses to inputs, whether from mouse or keyboard. As a last offense, it was clearing cells no matter what I did. It would clear a cell of data, then move to the next cell, and if I tried to do anything else, it would clear that second cell and move to a third. It finally crashed. I entered a rather rude response to the automatic report in the field asking what I was doing, I'm afraid.
When I restarted Numbers and reopened the spreadsheet, I found it had autosaved just before crashing. So the data will have to be looked up again from the original source.
I'm so mad my head and chest hurt. I've been fighting this thing's eccentricities for days, trying to fill out a spreadsheet I wrote years ago in Excel for doing my taxes. Please, please, someone bring back Excel (or a reasonable facsimile, which Numbers is not) before I die of sheer exasperation!
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Date: 2012-02-29 10:01 pm (UTC)But yeah, autosave can kill things.
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Date: 2012-02-29 11:00 pm (UTC)No longer supported.
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Date: 2012-03-01 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 06:50 am (UTC)Numbers is an Apple product. Excel is a Microsoft product. If you still have a licensed copy of Excel, switch back to using that. I've still got Excel in Mac Office 2008 running on my Macbook and it seems fine, so unless you have a specific reason to stick with Numbers, I'd suggest you switch back to the program you're more comfortable with.
Also, the TextEdit Autosave you're talking about is not just a TextEdit thing. It's a general feature of Lion and any programs that support it will auto-save your documents in those programs for you. TextEdit, being actually a standard app in OS X, supports the feature. You can always poke around for a freeware text editor that doesn't use the feature, if you find that an annoying dealbreaker.
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Date: 2012-03-02 04:17 am (UTC)Done. I was under the impression that since the Microsoft products I had for the previous version of OS X were no longer supported that neither was Open Office. I downloaded the current version and will install it later.