more Excel 2002 gripes

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Harlan Grove

I'm now using Excel 2002 at work, specifically

Excel 2002(10.4302.4219) SP-2

When I delete blank worksheets, Excel 2002 doesn't display a warning
that the action can't be undone. (Tangential note: Lotus 123 has been
able to undo worksheet deletion since at least R5, which came out at
the end of 1994. Hard to believe such undo functionality is beyond the
abilities of Excels' programmers, but not so hard to believe Microsoft
isn't about to pay for the development effort as long as people keep
paying real money for useless upgrades. Thus, License 5.0.) Excel 2002
does display warnings about deleting nonblank worksheets.

This may seem reasonable, but it's common to use blank worksheets to
bracket groups of worksheets used in 3D references. No warnings when
such bracketting worksheets are deleted - BAD! I suppose I now have to
add dummy data to all worksheets in order to force Excel 2002 to do the
right thing. Note that this means filling in cells - Excel 2002 merrily
deletes without warning worksheets with all cells blank but containing
worksheet-level names.
 

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