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Article #177Re: Wanted: Excel guru
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 13:29
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 13:29
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In article <6306@news.duke.edu>, arminius@soc7.acpub.duke.edu (Ian Carter) writes: > > I have a problem with a dataset which exists in text format, and I need to > get it into a format manipulable as data. So far, I've been using Excel, but > with little success. Current format is: > > 001 Constituency name Candidate Name 1 % 1 Turnout yes % > Candidate Name 2 % 2 no % > Candidate Name 3 % 3 > Which brings up a question of mine. Without converting to Improv or Lotus 1-2-3, is there a way to fake Excel 4.0 into having effectively three-dimensional worksheets? e.g. a record like correlation points initial point final point where the initial and final points are six numbers each (position and orientation) and the correlation point field is a set of an indefinite number (6 to 16) of six-dimensional point fields. Elliotte Rusty Harold Department of Mathematics elharo@m.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark, NJ 07102
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!tesla.njit.edu!erh0362 From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Wanted: Excel guru Message-ID: <1992Oct31.082930.1@tesla.njit.edu> Date: 31 Oct 92 13:29:30 GMT References: <6306@news.duke.edu> Sender: news@njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: tesla