Re: Is there a spreadsheet/database combo program?

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From: Jim Kenyon
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 16:33

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In article <1990Oct19.032936.6557@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> cyamamot@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Cliff Yamamoto) writes:
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>I'd like to find a way to import or link database entries with entries
>in a spreadsheet (Lotus/Excel/whatever doesn't matter).  What I'm looking
>for a way of searching for a item in a database (w/ some predicate), then
>once the entry or entries have been found, bring it's values into the
>spreadsheet.
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>*THEN* if I change a value in the spreadsheet which affects the values
>for one of my spreadsheet entries, it's new updated value is reflected
>in the database respectively.
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>Is this too far fetched?  I'd prefer something on the IBM/PC platform but
>I guess Macs would be ok.  This doesn't have a be a full fledge product.
>It could be some add-on program to an existing database and/or spreadsheet
>program.
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>
>Cliff Yamamoto


Try Lotus Symphony -- I thought it was a spreadsheet cum database.
Also, Ashton Tate Framework might be of interest....


--
Jim Kenyon -- jkenyon@css.itd.umich.edu
University of Michigan, 401 Washtenaw Ave
Division of Kinsesiology, Motor Behavior Lab
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 -- (313) 763-0498

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