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Article #33444Re: Excel (ergonomics of printed data)
From: Wade Blomgren
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1988 16:17
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1988 16:17
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In article <6435@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) writes: > > In Excel, why couldn't there be a "quasi-greenbar" effect generated? For > instance, a light shading of so many rows every so many rows for readability. > Since Excel spits out rectangles with text on top of them as a printing > method, it would seem to be trivial. If you generalized it to another cell > attribute like the outline attributes, it would be even simpler. > > Am I the only person interested in the ergonomics of printed data? > Rich Straka ihnp4!ihlpf!straka > Avoid BrainDamage: MSDOS - just say no! This is all sort of ironic (Microsoft yawning at the idea, Rich hating MS-DOS, etc) because the DOS version of Excel does _exactly_ this. (There is a cell border attribute called "Shade" which shades all selected cells. The effect when printing to a LaserWriter is indeed "quasi-greenbar" Wade Blomgren wade@sdacs
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!ucsd!sdcc6!sdacs!wade From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Excel (ergonomics of printed data) Message-ID: <48@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> Date: 19 Oct 88 16:17:22 GMT References: <802@wheaton.UUCP> <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <6435@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services Lines: 19