Microfinance Practice: Re: [MFP] Microfin 4.143 (beta) available today

Dear Howard
This is a great initiative.
Regards
Srinivasan
On 11-May-2016, at 7:50 PM, 'Howard Brady' hbrady@mfiresources.org [MicrofinancePractice] wrote:

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> I have taken on the challenge to make Microfin work again, as intended,
> before Microsoft made some changes to Excel that made things not behave as
> they did before. I'm excited to let you know that there is a BETA release
> now available, which I'm calling Microfin 4.143. It can be downloaded here:
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> http://microfin.mfiresources.org/index.php/resources
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> Should you upgrade to this version?
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> If you're just using microfin in consolidated mode without voluntary
> savings, you're probably ok to stay in your current version. But if you're
> interested in using the savings features (indexing to an external currency
> or adjusting for inflation) or using branch or region mode with multiple
> loan products, or wishing to apply financing or non-financing costs to the
> relevant regions, this version will allow you to do so (again). Also, this
> version re-introduces the ability of Microfin to show the amount of RAM used
> while working in Microfin. I was able to open 5 regional sheets and 5 loan
> products, linking each of those regional sheets to each loan product, and it
> increased the used RAM by about 220 MB in both 32 and 64 bit versions of
> Excel.
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> If you find any errors or problems, or macro fails, please let me know. I
> will work to fix replicable errors in a future release early in June. If
> you have ideas for future enhancements for Microfin, feel free to let me
> know those as well. Major development will require fundraising, just so you
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> No suggestion or comment is too trivial or small at this point.
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> Thanks,
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> -howard
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