[IBL] MIS Template?

[Larry Merithew]

On 03/19/2015 08:43 AM, genny wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> Thanks all.
> - David
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Noel Steere <noel.steere at rcn.com 
> <mailto:noel.steere at rcn.com>> wrote:
>
>     There was discussion a couple of months ago about creating a
>     simpler version of the MIS that we'd all use.  Anything happen
>     with that?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Noel
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>
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.

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.

Larry
SFP
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