a526@mindlink.UUCP (Brad Murray) (09/21/90)
Is anyone else having troubles with this thing? I just installed version 2.1c
of Microsoft Excel, the one that is supposed to work with Windows 3.0. I have
Windows 3.0 installed and have had no trouble with it. I have installed Excel
in the same directory as Windows, and it is definitely in my DOS path.
Now the problem -- when I run Excel all looks fine except for a couple of
things:
1) When you select any of the items on the Help menu, the disk drive
crunches away for a short while and then you are returned to the worksheet as
though nothing was requested of it. Pretty cocky behaviour for an application
in my opinion. :)
2) When entering formulas it will invariably cough out a ERROR IN
FORUMLA error if you start entering a second parameter for the formula --
regardless of whether you are selecting cells by mouse or typing in the vector
by hand. Specifically, bith of these give me an error at the first comma:
=LOOKUP(B4,C1:C20,D1:D20)
=SUM(B1:B5,B12:B16,B19:B21)
but the problem is by no means restricted to these examples -- any
multi-parameter formula chokes.
My hardware is a C&T 386 25 motherboard with 4 megs memory and a 287 math chip.
Is the 287 the culprit here? I notice that Excel checks fo a coprocessor, so
maybe it doesn't know that a 386 can have a 287 in it?
Thanks in advance for help!
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