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Article #30512Re: Looking for Business graphics applications
From: Paul Meyer
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 18:17
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 18:17
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(quotes from article <514@ethz.UUCP> lengge@bernina.UUCP (Thomas Lenggenhager))
I just received my upgrade to Excel 1.5. Although Excel is
hardly a simple and low-cost application, the new version does all the
things your friend asked for. Excel is also the most computationally-
powerful spreadsheet I'm aware of--with V1.5 it can now do matrix
operations which were a weakness earlier. I'm a SW engineer and
mathemagician by trade, not a business type, but I find it nearly
indispensable
>1) Perform easy spreadsheet operations
(and hard ones too :-)
>2) Draw easy business charts in *full* *colour*
I haven't really played with color--I have and SE but do use a
color ribbon in my IW2. Even when the screen is monochrome, you can
print in the IW2's colors.
>3) Handle full colour images
I'm not sure what you mean here...sounds more like a word
processor feature than a spreadsheet feature. If you're running on a
Mac II you can always cut & paste the color-quickdraw chart into a WP
document, of course, along with whatever other pictures you've got.
>4) Print these graphs and images on some colour-printer and slide-maker
If you can do it on an IW2, you should be able to do it on
anything that has a standard Mac driver.
>4) *Automatically update* the charts when the figures change (New
> figures will be pasted into the calculation sheet)
Answer 1: within Excel, this is pretty much automatic.
Answer 2: if you use Word 3 as your WP and run Excel and Word
simultaneously under Multifinder they offer some kind of feature to do
this. I've never looked into the details.
> Gary T. Czychi University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
> Tel. ++41 / 71 / 27'52'68
> Bitnet: CZYCHI@CSGHSG52 (CSGHSG53)
Paul Meyer pem@cadnetix.COM
Cadnetix Corp.
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Boulder, CO 80301 (303)444-8075x244
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cadnetix.COM!cadnetix!pem From: pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Looking for Business graphics applications Summary: Excel 1.5 Message-ID: <3390@cadnetix.COM> Date: 22 Jul 88 18:17:11 GMT References: <514@ethz.UUCP> Sender: news@cadnetix.COM Reply-To: pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) Organization: Cadnetix Corp., Boulder, CO Lines: 37