Saturday, February 24, 2007

Small Technical Achievement

This morning, I wanted to transfer a file from my work laptop to my home laptop. The file is a Microsoft Excel file.

Problem 1: how to do it gracefully.
Answer 1: Put it on the freebie thumb drive -- plug the drive into the work laptop, transfer the file, plug the drive into the home laptop, transfer the file. Gee, that was tough.

Problem 2: The file is in Excel 2003 format. The home laptop only has Excel 95.
Answer 2: Use Open Office Calc (free) to open the file, then save it in Excel 95 format. Giggle as this delivers just the tiniest pinprick to the Microsoft empire.

Smile.

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