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:>Wingz does read Excel files and will do wireframe, contour, and surface plots
:>as well as 3D bar, pie, and line charts.

The quality is not what I would call 'scientific'.  For the 3d/contour stuff
not only does your data need to be on a regularly spaced grid, it must
be over a rectangular area.
Also it wont do a plot with contour _lines_, just shaded areas.

:transfer between Excel and Wings, you have to save the Excel document in
: ".SYLK" format (Lotus 1-2-3, I believe) first, then open it in Wings.

..or text-only

:
:Another problem is the way they want the information tabulated.  To do
:a sales chart in Excel you would input:
:
:whereas in Wings you would input:
:
:to get the same chart! Otherwise, Wings uses the Sales and Cost figures as
:the time input, and you get a really goofy chart.
:

Excell could handle the data in either arrangement, though I agree
Wingz needs more flexability.

:numbers, make the chart, hide the numbers, print the chart, (and if I need
:to change the numbers) show the numbers, change the numbers, hide the
:numbers, print the chart, etc., etc. What a pain.
:

surely there must be people out there who have created some pretty 
slick Wingz macro's to handle some of these problems.
Anyone care to share them?



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-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu