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1. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
davescm Jul 10, 2017 1:54 AM (in response to gener7)Wow !!!
Dave
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2. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
Trevor.Dennis Jul 10, 2017 4:07 AM (in response to gener7)I'll echo Dave's comment. So many stunning images, and from me experience of wrestling with Office shapes and objects, he is as much a hero as an artist. He even says it is easier than MS Paint! Go figure. Actually, I may have learned something, because he says that Excel is more flexible than Word when it comes to this stuff, and my 'wrestling' comment above, was in relation to Word.
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3. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
Bob Howes Jul 10, 2017 4:46 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)Not nearly in the same league as that beautiful picture, but back when I was designing 19 inch rack layouts for installation projects, I had an Excel template that let me put in things to scale--1RU, 2RU etc. I even had some graphics to represent some common equipment items.
I also used Excel for creating cable schedules...and for working out the bill at the end!
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4. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
Nancy OShea Jul 11, 2017 11:56 AM (in response to gener7)Really nice!
Like I always say, it's not the tool, it's the person using it .
Nancy
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5. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
gener7 Jul 11, 2017 12:55 PM (in response to Nancy OShea)True, but I would not want to mow the lawn with nail clippers.
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6. Re: One Adobe alternative...Microsoft Excel?
Myra Ferguson Jul 17, 2017 9:45 AM (in response to gener7)Wow. That's impressive. I agree the artist would need to be good. I've seen people try to use Excel to mock up websites. That was not pretty on a number of levels.
Speaking of artists being able to master a tool... have you seen the graphic novel that was recently released by an artist who used Microsoft Paint? Microsoft (MSFT) Paint was solely used to create a stunning 1980's-inspired graphic novel — Quartz