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Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced

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<yourname-0212110901220001@203-118-175-19.nzwide.ihug.co.nz>,
 yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:

> In article <no.email-31D0F5.09302501122011@news.eternal-september.org>,
> David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> wrote:
> > In article 
> > <yourname-0112111327490001@203-118-175-126.nzwide.ihug.co.nz>,
> >  yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >  
> > > FileMaker has (apparently) decided they want to abandon the ability to
> > > export to the older .xls format, but you can still work around that by
> > > exporting to CSV or tab-delimited text formats, which any version of Excel
> > > will open and can then be re-saved as .xls.
> > 
> > It's not a completely unreasonable decision, since that's now what, two
> > full release versions out of date?  Still getting security updates for
> > Office 2004 Mac, but that will cease in a couple of years I expect. And,
> > as you say, there's always comma or tab delimited Excel files.
> 
> It is completely unreasonable ... I'm still using Office 2001.  ;o)
> 
> Given how even more horrible each new release of Office is to use (the
> current one is awful), I'll probably still be using Office 2001 in another
> 10 years time.

That is actually the reason I am not upgrading to Lion - no Rosetta, no
Office 2004!

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Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced CRC123 <cra@aalappraisals.ca> - 2011-11-29 15:28 -0800
  Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2011-11-30 05:34 +0000
    Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-12-01 10:01 +1300
      Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced Bill <bbcollins@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-30 17:21 -0500
        Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-12-01 13:27 +1300
          Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2011-12-01 05:25 +0000
          Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-12-01 22:47 +1300
          Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2011-12-01 09:30 -0500
            Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2011-12-01 15:29 +0000
              Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2011-12-01 11:51 -0500
                Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-12-02 09:06 +1300
              Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-12-02 09:03 +1300
            Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-12-02 09:01 +1300
              Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2011-12-01 15:48 -0500
            Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced yapu@invivo.edu (Philippe Manet) - 2011-12-06 21:26 +0100
              Re: Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2011-12-07 09:21 -0500

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