<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Larry - Thanks much, and absolutely no magic to using Excel as a format. If I ever got there, was intended to be vehicle for ease of use, and as you suggest a tabbed-up Excel format may not be the best way to go about it. Or a companion MS Word doc could also be generated. </div><div> </div><div>As a side note, I greatly appreciate Rob's MIS for Edgemoor not b/c it is in Excel format, but because it adopts an approach in form and in substance that would make his MIS easy to play. Much cleaner than the more complex MIS decision-trees I inserted as placeholders.</div><div> </div><div>- David (MNM) </div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Larry Merithew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lawrentemerithew5873@comcast.net" target="_blank">lawrentemerithew5873@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Noel and all - I was the one who floated it. Although I
would still love simpler MIS, I sensed an understandable range
of opinion of what was "simpler" and whether "simpler" was
better. Although I planned on forging ahead and providing
something for everyone's review, I found a single year of IBL
experience and time constraints were not a great combo to
reimagine MIS.</div>
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<div>I did take a pretty mediocre shot at making an Excel
version of MIS. Frankly, I am going to jettison it for this
year and just go with the standard wall of text MS Word
approach. But since you asked, and since I know it's not
good so no feelings will be hurt, I've attached it in its
current "form" with some placeholder content. Basically, I
wanted to create an index (see the first tab) that would allow
owners to determine in one look if more specific instructions
were necessary to consult. I would have better organized the
index and add hyperlinks so that you could double-click on
a cell and would be taken directly to the relevant tab. Would
also organize in decision tree order (like many of you do - PR
first, then PH, then .....). Then would make the more
specific instructions as lean and clean as possible.</div>
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<div>It has a long ways to go to be "simpler" and better, and
I'm not sure it would ever get there. But I might keep trying
to poke around with it in the future. Unfortunately for now,
no better mousetrap in Minnesota.</div>
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<div>Thanks all.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Noel
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discussion a couple of months ago about creating a simpler
version of the MIS that we'd all use. Anything happen with
that?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Noel<br>
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For me, I prefer to print out the MIS prior to playing the series.
An Excel sheet with tabs would be difficult (but not impossible) to
do this with. More importantly, I run Linux for an OS with
LibreOffice. It can usually handle Excel, as long as there are no
macros. If there are macros, they get blocked for security reasons
by the program settings.<br>
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A plain Excel page (such as Edgemoor's) should work fine. Just not
with a bunch of bells and whistles. If that's the way you want to
set it up, that's up to you. If I have an issue, I'll let you know,
but I don't expect problems to happen very often. I'm flexible.<br>
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Larry<br>
SFP<br>
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