RE: Referring to Excel files--thanks!

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

Not according to M-W10.  It's probably a matter of insisting on using the same terminology that the application and its help system uses.  All of the internal menus use the terms "workbook" and "worksheet" so using something different would be potentially confusing.


-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Cooley [mailto:shiva -at- io -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:16 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Referring to Excel files--thanks!


Laurel Robinson wrote:
> 
> Why then doesn't Microsoft list the term Workbook in their Manual of 
> Style?...it just says never use "spreadsheet". Argg......

That sounds really odd. Maybe it's that Lotus 1-2-3 has spreadsheets 
trademarked or something (even though that would be hard to enforce)?


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