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Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL -> Wingz

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From: David Cortesi
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1989 19:44
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In article <796@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root) writes:
>                           For one thing, I use a number of spreadsheets
>in different folders, with a couple of master sheets that are linked to
>the scattered detail sheets.  As near as I can tell, you can't link
>spreadsheets at all in Wingz.

It may not be exactly what you want, but any expression may refer to
the value of a cell in any other open spreadsheet, so that "Sales:C20"
is that cell in the sheet named Sales. The catch is that the other sheets
have to be open at the same time; Wingz won't go get them.
But if a group was always used together you could start work by dragging
a Finder rectangle around them and double-clicking...

>The other thing is that some of my spreadsheets are HUGE.  Of course,
>Wingz can handle the size, but when I'm in the midst of the sheet, I
>can't see the row and column heads.  In Excel, I handle this by splitting
>the window.  I can't see a way to do that in Wingz.

Again it's not exactly the same thing, but you can open multiple windows
onto any sheet and drag and resize them, so you could open a window
showing just column heads and then overlap it with a window in which
you scroll to the detail rows.  (And other windows on other sections
of your HUGE sheet, in sizes & shapes as you want...)

///////   /
//////   //   David Cortesi                  Disclaimer: I work on
////  / ///   Informix Software              databases, I don't know
///  / ////   Menlo Park, CA  USA            anything about spreadsheets!
//  / /////       infmx!cortesi              Mac? Whozza Mac?  z'run VMS?
/  ////////
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From: cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi)
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Subject: Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL -> Wingz
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Date: 23 Jun 89 19:44:39 GMT
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