straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) (10/18/88)
In article <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes: >In article <802@wheaton.UUCP> beng@wheaton.UUCP (Ben Greenwald) writes: >>I saw a beta version of Word 4.0 at the MacFest here in Chicago on 10-6. >but I often need to stick simple graphics around text, or putting a >grey background behind a table, and going to Pagemaker to do it is a pain. Related question, different product: When I called uSoft about this request, it was greeted with a YAWN: 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!
wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) (10/19/88)
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
Matt.Bordenet@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Matt Bordenet) (02/17/90)
I have a very basic question: when I plot figures graphically, how can I get the x-axis to be a set of data (and not just 1 to XXXX incremented by one.) In other words, how can I get a graph comparing column 1 to column 2? -- Matt Bordenet via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!343!31!Matt.Bordenet INET: Matt.Bordenet@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG
neilh@microsoft.UUCP (Neil HOOPMAN) (03/01/90)
In article <41993.25DF0C59@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Matt.Bordenet@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Matt Bordenet) writes: >I have a very basic question: when I plot figures graphically, how can I >get the x-axis to be a set of data (and not just 1 to XXXX incremented by >one.) In other words, how can I get a graph comparing column 1 to column >2? To plot a chart with x by y in Excel: * Select the range (2 columns with x in the first and y in the second) * Edit/Copy * File/New Chart * Edit/Paste Special... [X] Categories in first column <ok> * Gallery/Scatter, type #1 <ok> Hope that helps! ------------ Neil Hoopman - Microsoft -- uunet!microsoft!neilh ------------- "Carpe Diem. Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary." - DPS ------------- Microsoft owns the keyboard. I own the fingers. -------------
straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka) (03/01/90)
I (still) have a unopened Excel 2.2 package for sale. Evidently, the price I was asking was higher than those out there were willing to pay, or they couldn't get in touch with me. (New .sig, below) Email back with your offer if you would like to purchase this package. I'll entertain the highest offer, provided that it is reasonable. (I DO have other people I can talk to, but I thought I'd return a favor to the net.) Remember, MacConnection sells it for $249. -- Richard Straka AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UUCP: att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane ARPA: straka@ihlpf.att.com syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.