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Article #4093Re: Is there a spreadsheet/database combo program?
From: Allen J Michielsen
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 02:18
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 02:18
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>In article <1990Oct19.032936.6557@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> cyamamot@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Cliff Yamamoto) writes: >---- deleted stuff ---- >>I'd like to find a way to import or link database entries with entries >>in a spreadsheet... searching for a item in a database, then >>once the entry or entries have been found, bring it's values...spreadsheet. >> >>*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. >> Most of this sounds just like the features added in lotus 123 version 3 and above. The search part will probably require work writing some (better) macros, but linking the spreadsheets is what it's all about isn't it ? The alternate case I guess may be a recommendation///////////// no make that a suggestion to look at dbase. I neither confirm nor deny, but see that it's popular in the marketplace. al -- Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University InterNet: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu Bitnet: AMICHIEL@SUNRISE
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!amichiel From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.wanted Subject: Re: Is there a spreadsheet/database combo program? Keywords: spread sheet, database, linked, lotus, dbase Message-ID: <1990Oct20.021848.5553@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: 20 Oct 90 02:18:48 GMT References: <1990Oct19.032936.6557@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Oct19.163313.15580@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Followup-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 25