Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Last Straw for Excel?

Microsoft Office and I haven't been getting along well lately, which is too bad because I have really liked all the new features of Office 2013. But after upgrading Windows to 8.1 this week, Excel decided to stop working. As in, it completely crashes whenever I try to go beyond the view of cells available when it opens. Not cool.

Normally I'd try to figure something out to get everything working, but this weekend I had to input my students' grades so I could discuss their test scores with them on Monday, so I didn't have time to go on a wild Windoze chase for a solution. Instead, I tried out the import feature of Google Docs, and overall I was pretty impressed. Let me share the details...