May 16

Everybody who writes a bunch of decimal numbers down for adding up writes them with the units column as a, well, column. This is called aligning by decimal point.

Microsoft Excel came to market dominance in 1993. Why is it then that 12 years later there is still no option to align cells’ values by their decimal point? You still need a relatively complex workaround.


3 comments so far...

  • Andy Said on May 16th, 2005 at 13:59:

    Presumably it was designed by people who dont use spreadsheets.

  • Mort's mom Said on May 16th, 2005 at 14:56:

    Let’s just put it this way,
    I have no idea what you are talking about or why it is important.

  • sweavo Said on May 16th, 2005 at 14:59:

    Surely MM you’ve added up numbers before with decimal points? If so, this issue affects YOU. If you don’t stand up and be counted then you have no right to complain when computers break and we declare war in iraq. Or was that voting? I always get mixed up.

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