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Comments on Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?

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Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?

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Power Users has just been launched and I remember that Software Development has some content related to office suite usage (example).

Is it OK to migrate these questions to the Power Users community?

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posted over 3 years ago
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I went ahead and made a proposal on Power User that a separate category for office suites should be made. I suggest that we wait and see where that proposal lands.

If a category for these questions is made, we can go ahead and migrate. (Such a category would also soften the "bump blow" that comes from migrating some I dunno, some 50 questions(?), from here to there.)

In the meantime we can discuss overlapping scopes. I think most agree that excel formulas etc are more suited for Power User. But in the above proposal I also identified two more overlaps with this site: VBA and MS Access. These sit in some grey area between Software Development and Power Users. We know from SO that what to do with VBA (and excel) questions were a constant source of conflict. Better to discuss sooner rather than later what to do with such questions.

EDIT as per 2021-06-08:

My proposal wasn't well-received and it's unlikely that a category will get created. So I'd say just go ahead and migrate. If someone whines about bumping/bombardment of office suite questions, well they have been warned that could have been avoided.

posted over 3 years ago
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Estela‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Regarding the frontier. I would put it at Turing completeness. So Excel's formulae (without LAMBDA) go to Power User. VBA to Software Development. That being said... Using a limited subset of the features of a language can make it non Turing complete. And people commonly using such subset will feel they are better suited to Power Users even if the whole language is Turing complete (as it happens now with Excel formulae once LAMBDA is included). So some arbitrarity is unavoidable.

Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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@Estela‭ I don't think we can use that as a distinction. HTML, SQL, batch script and so on is on-topic here.

Estela‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago
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batch script is Turing complete. HTML... I am not an expert, but it is or it was a description language as opposed to a programming language. So asking if HTML is Turing complete is like asking if an apple is Turing complete. It still has a place here because programming is not the only thing relevant to programming. As for SQL, it is Turing complete with CTE and not Turing complete wihout CTE. SQL is actually a good argument against my proposal since SQL without CTE is beyond any ...

Estela‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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... doubt relevant here. Same happens with regular expresions, which are not turing complete but are a programming language. Hmmm, yeah, scrap my idea.

Estela‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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That being said. And this applies to office tools. I would say that Turning Completeness is sufficient to qualify but not necessary. So if something, like VBA, is Turing complete we need look no more. It belongs here.