singer@uwovax.uwo.ca (02/11/90)
This may seem like a mundane question, but in my past brief contacts with
spreadsheet programs, I have never found one that was simple to use, easy to
learn, with very specific context-relevant help. I have looked over the reviews
for Lotus, Quatro, et al, and note that they are loaded with useless (to me)
features such as graphics features, linkages to other programs, files, 3, 4 and
5 dimensional matrices, multitransfer feataures, and I am sure, factor analysis
of fast food profit margins on Jupiter. Moreover, the spreadsheets that are
included in the "integrated" programs include junk communication and word
processor programs that I would assuredly never use or want around. Thus, here
is my question: Is there a simple spreadsheet aimed at basic use, for figuring
out future values, pensions, etc., but which has extensive help menues that
offer real help, not further abstract jargon and symbols, and which might, in
fact, allow you to use words in place of formulae? An idea whose time must have
already come, as Victor Hugo used to say? Please let me and others know about
it if so.
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Ben Singer Department of Sociology
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