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Old 10-05-2014 | 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by clippedwings
I am familiar with "Isaac Excel". I am aware that Mr. Excel has the ability to manipulate the schedules after merlot runs through the bids. In my case..... the schedules are exactly the way I bid. I have not been a victim of Mr. Excel yet. I know there are numerous pilots that get their schedules manipulated but there are also a good amount of pilots who get a messed up schedule because they don't know how to operate merlot. That is all I was trying to say by that.
You are, somewhat, misinformed. Merlot does nothing with the schedule. Your preferences are saved in a form Excel can read, and then exported to Excel. Your schedule is built in Excel, and then loaded back in to Merlot.

At no time does Merlot do anything with your schedule, other than (supposedly) check it for legality.