>>>It's quite frightening the no. of people who don't know this. When I taught Excel to secretarial students, some of whom had been using it in work for years, every class I'd ask them the answer to, like, 6 + 3 * 4, and 9 out of 10 would answer 36.
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>>>BTW, I'd teach 'em more in 1 day than they'd gleaned in 2 years' use ;-)
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>>Talking about Excel... I was working with a guy who called me to help him out. Remember Lotus 123? Well he asked me to help him with an excel problem. He couldn't figure out how to move a range. Apparently he'd been trying to figure this out all morning. He said to me (and this is an exact quote), "I know how to do this in Lotus 123, but I can't figure out how to do it in Excel." I was almost too stunned to speak.
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>I know what you mean but at the same time I can easily believe it. People get so locked into the one way they know how to do something it's hard for them to see things a different way. It's scary how many people went through the pain and suffering of memorizing WordPerfect's arcane keyboard syntax, then felt lost in a GUI.

But as I recall, there wasn't a great difference in the way the 2 handled moving a range.

Ah, WordPerfect! Yes that was arcane, and we all know that our fingers knew the commands better than our brains did.