[IBL] MIS Template?

[genny]

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.

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.

- David (MNM)



On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Larry Merithew <
lawrentemerithew5873 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  On 03/19/2015 08:43 AM, genny wrote:
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>  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.
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> 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
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Noel Steere <noel.steere at rcn.com> wrote:
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>> 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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