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Re: Excel or Spreadsheet

Subject: Re: Excel or Spreadsheet
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:12:51 -0500




John Posada wrote:

Hi, guys...I have an application that has a menu button labeled
Export. When clicked, you are given two choices; Excel and Text.

My issue is that we call it out by the application Excel, when in
reality, we're simply creating a file with an Excel extension and
whatever spreadsheet application they are using that recognizes that
extension is launched.

My question...are there enough non-Excel users out there to make the
effort of changing our application to use the choices Spreadsheet and
Text?

Our targeted audience is Fortune 500 type of organizations.



Probably not worth the effort. If it is easy to change the choices to ".xls" and ".txt" instead of "Excel" and "Text," then I would suggest making that change. That way, it's completely unambiguous and, as you said, any application that can open an .xls file is fine. But if what you're really exporting is .csv, then say so.

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