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plonqThe more I use this program, the more I hate it. What kind of morons were in the development team when this fetid piece of crap was shipped?
For a good part of the morning I've been tweaking a large dataset, trying to get this program to recognize the dates in it as, well, dates. Naturally once its internal logic determines that a field contains a certain kind of data, the drop-down where you can potentially override that is ghosted. Come to think of it, that drop-down box is always ghosted.
Ah, this appears to be a number of some kind.
Ah, this appears to be some kind of random ascii with "/" characters strewn through it.
Ah, this appears to be quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hm, more random ascii with "/"s?
Eventually I found that the only date format it seems to understand is m/d/yy format.
That's odd, because it then defaults to yyyy/mm/dd format to display the date -- which is the first date format I tried on it. It's enough to make one's head explode.
Vacation in 1.5 days.
For a good part of the morning I've been tweaking a large dataset, trying to get this program to recognize the dates in it as, well, dates. Naturally once its internal logic determines that a field contains a certain kind of data, the drop-down where you can potentially override that is ghosted. Come to think of it, that drop-down box is always ghosted.
Ah, this appears to be a number of some kind.
Ah, this appears to be some kind of random ascii with "/" characters strewn through it.
Ah, this appears to be quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hm, more random ascii with "/"s?
Eventually I found that the only date format it seems to understand is m/d/yy format.
That's odd, because it then defaults to yyyy/mm/dd format to display the date -- which is the first date format I tried on it. It's enough to make one's head explode.
Vacation in 1.5 days.
