Re: [802SEC] New and Improved Sponsor Ballot Comment Spreadsheet in myProject

[Geoff Thompson <thompson@ieee.org>]

Christina-

My personal belief is that the requirement is for an Excel spreadsheet 
to work on popular and/or freely available platforms.
I don't envision this to be any different than the need to test web 
pages on several browsers.

Open Office does read and write Excel format spreadsheets.
Hopefully you haven't done anything within Excel that the Open Office 
folks have not provided for.

I would also be happy to take a pre-release look at the spreadsheet and 
see if I can help define any obvious problems.  The best solution (of 
course) would be to have an Excel formatted form that works well on 
either platform so that we do not have to burden the users with the 
concern of which platform they well use.

Best regards,

    Geoff Thompson

On 315//12 10:53 AM, Christina Boyce wrote:
> Geoff
> The original request was to allow MS Excel.  We just tested and OO does
> not work properly.  I will discuss with the developers to determine if
> this is something that is an easy fix or if we need to develop a new OO
> formatted form.
>
> Regards,
> Christina Boyce
> Manager Standards Solutions Services, IEEE Standards
> 445 Hoes Lane
> Piscataway, NJ 08855
> c.boyce@ieee.org
> Phone 732-562-5540
> Cell 908-239-4038
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> From:
> Geoff Thompson<thompson@ieee.org>
> To:
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> STDS-802-SEC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG, Geoff Thompson<thompson@IEEE.ORG>
> Date:
> 05/31/2012 11:17 AM
> Subject:
> Re: [802SEC] New and Improved Sponsor Ballot Comment Spreadsheet in
> myProject
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> Christina-
>
> Thanks for doing this, REALLY !!
> One question:
> What are the various spreadsheets/versions that this has been/(will be)
> tested against?
> The one(s) that I am particularly interested in is:
>       OpenOffice 3.4.0 running on a MAC
>       (I believe that Dr. Gilb runs OOo on a PC)
>
> Thanks again,
>
>           Geoff Thompson
>
> On 305//12 5:23 PM, Christina Boyce wrote:
>    
> >    I am happy to announce that with the next software release this week
> >      
> we
>    
> > will have completed request/ticket # 1026/108 which states:
> >
> > " Improve Sponsor Ballot Comment Spreadsheet.  Making commenters life
> >      
> easy
>    
> > is key because,  unlike officers,  they are unlikely to take the time to
> > educate themselves to work around problems. Do not use macros in this
> > solution since some companies do not allow users to download macros.
> >      
> Some
>    
> > data on validation can be found here
> >
> >      
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/apply-data-validation-to-cells-HP010072600.aspx
>
>    
> > .
> > In addition to the CSV download, provide the commenter the ability to
> > download a MSExcel comment spreadsheet that has the following:
> > * data validation to the MS Excel spreadsheet (only allow ASCII
> >      
> character
>    
> > set)
> > *validate number fields to allow numerals and/or Roman numerals
> > * data validation messages.
> > * Turn off auto correct.
> > * Only allow ASCII character set
> >
> > RESOLUTION:
> > * Developers have added data validation to ballot XLS spreadsheet as per
> > proposed resolution
> > * Generate a XLS spreadsheet for myBallot comment import which includes
> > similar data validation as the previous ePoll XLS
> > * The ballot name and close date are included in the spreadsheet header.
> > * Ensure subclause is a single item which allows numbers, dots, and
> >      
> alpha
>    
> > characters.
> > * Line and page number now accept Roman numeral values.
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any questions about this change.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christina Boyce
> > Manager Standards Solutions Services, IEEE Standards
> > 445 Hoes Lane
> > Piscataway, NJ 08855
> > c.boyce@ieee.org
> > Phone 732-562-5540
> > Cell 908-239-4038
> >
> > IEEE ? Advancing Technology for Humanity
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