jayf@islenet.UUCP (Jay Fields) (11/24/85)
GREETINGS,
I have just finished working with Microsoft Excel for the second four hour
session and think I can safely say that the program is pretty slick. It seems
to perform as advertised. Some opertations seem to be faster executing. The
screens seem to zoom up and down quickly when you double click the title bar,
and the recalculation of the spreadsheet is significantly faster than Multiplan.
I can't remember any program permitting graphics to be generated as easily from
the spreadsheet. Since most of the graphs people generate depend on some sort
of spreadsheet data-table, Microsoft permits a very fast copy and paste of such
tables into meaningful graphics.
Excels's database seems very much like 1-2-3. Once I learn the macros of Excel,
I'll be able to report on how powerful the combination is as compared to 1-2-3.
Besides being fast, Excel's spreadsheet does several other things right, if not
righteously. The ability to delete range names from a 'mini-finder', create
tailor-made format screens ("acct nr." 00000 ), control of individual cell text
formatting, and a very speedy method of linking information between spreadsheets
are some of the more noteworthy features. I could go on a bit mentioning the
value-as-displayed feature, and others, but think I'll get off the line now and
look at macros.
Aloha,
J Fields
PRC Honolulu; State of Hawaii Hansen's Disease Project.
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