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Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?

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From: Brian Bechtel
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:14
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willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes:

>The integration isn't quite a seamless as it sounds.  If you put a
>spreadsheet into a word processor document as described here, the SS is
>effectively pasted on top of the WP document.  It isn't really IN the WP
>document.  If, for example, you create a SS in a WP document to create a
>table, and then add text to the paragraphs preceeding the table, the
>text will flow underneath the "table" and disappear.  You have to move
>the "table" around manually to sit on top of the space that you've
>created in the WP document (again, manually).  You can cut and paste the
>SS into your WP document, and it will follow the text around, but the SS
>will no longer be "live" - it will be just like in MSWorks. 

Create both word processing "frames" and spreadsheet "frames" and
connect them together instead.  Now the word processing will flow
correctly.  See the manual for more details.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
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Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
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