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Re: Wanted: Excel guru

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From: Elliotte Rusty Harold
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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