I think sometimes I ask way too much of a computer, then other times I despair at fairly simple mistakes. This one comes in the form of incapitability of Microsoft Office 2007 with… well, Microsoft Office 2007. Allow me to explain. I was fortunate enough to have someone in the office that didn’t mind spending 20 minutes listing out my contacts on to a spreadsheet, which was collated from an array of business cards, collected over the past 3 months. This then was going to be imported into our CRM system and Outlook 2007. I was passed the Excel Sheet with all the contacts nicely laid out ready for import. Here’s where the problems set in, I can not import a 2007 Excel sheet into Outlook 2007. FAIL!!.

Sure I could go and save the file as something else, but seriously, why should I have to. I’d prefer if it didn’t have backwards compatibility if it means I don’t have to sacrifice inter software compatibility (I have no other words to explain that).

Then again been using Numbers this week and twice it has corrupted an original xlsx file. Most annoying too lose spreadsheets that then need to be done again.