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Maybe I should clarify something. I remember when Quattro Pro was the first
and only spreadsheet to offer drilling. It's a very common technology now,
but when it was new and companies had to decide on a spreadsheet program,
some of the people I talked to prefered Quattro Pro for its drilling
capability. Every spreadsheet program has that now. I was being nostalgic.
Lauren
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> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
> Behalf Of Lauren
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:57 PM
> To: 'Bonnie Granat'; 'Techwr-l'
> Subject: RE: Office gripe
>
> > Behalf Of Bonnie Granat
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:37 PM
> > To: 'Techwr-l'
> > Subject: RE: Office gripe
> >
> > What I've heard is that Excel's code can't be tweaked much
> > for some reason.
> > I don't recall the details, but it was something about nobody
> > knowing what
> > it said anymore!
>
> Does "nobody" mean Microsoft? Does this mean that what we
> know as Excel is
> the final incarnation of Excel? Maybe, Excel will need an overhaul to
> become a bigger and better Excel. Or we can just go back to
> Quattro Pro or
> some other spreadsheet program, but I don't know if that has
> the multiple
> windows feature.
>
> Ahh, nostalgia. I remember when Quattro Pro was great because it had
> spreadsheet "drilling." You could enter data in one sheet
> and all of the
> sheets in the book would have the same data. Oooooo, drilling.
>
> Lauren
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