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September 25, 2007

Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug

Filed under: Bug, Office — jon @ 8:52 am

From Slashdot Article: “tibbar66 writes with news of a serious multiplication bug in Excel 2007, which has been reported to the company. The example that first came to light is =850*77.1 — which gives a result of 100,000 instead of the correct 65,535. It seems that any formula that should evaluate to 65,535 will act strangely. One poster in the forum noted these behaviors:

“Suppose the formula is in A1. =A1+1 returns 100,001, which appears to show the formula is in fact 100,000… =A1*2 returns 131,070, as if A1 had 65,535 (which it should have been). =A1*1 keeps it at 100,000. =A1-1 returns 65,534. =A1/1 is still 100,000. =A1/2 returns 32767.5.”"

September 24, 2007

Office 2007 Ultimate available to students for $59.95

Filed under: Office — jon @ 8:32 am

http://theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

You need to have a valid .edu address and be enrolled in at lease .5 credits.

September 19, 2007

Lotus Symphony

Filed under: Office, OpenSource — jon @ 6:17 am

IBM Lotus Symphony is the name of a set of applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and other documents. Originally released in 1985 as an integrated software application for DOS, IBM has revived the Symphony name in 2007 for a new office suite that was released free of charge in 2007.

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