Re: TableEditor 2.1 questions

[Eric Ray <ejray -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>]

LaVonna and others,

Sorry, I cannot help with that one, but I do have a couple of
comments about Pagemaker 5.0. I upgraded to PM5 about one month ago,
and so far have had printing problems, problems with PM not recognizing
my fonts, problems with the computer completely locking-up (CTRL-ALT-DEL
doesn't do anything), and more (different) printing problems.

I have also had remarkably unresponsive technical support, with the
general tone being "it is your problem, not ours."

In short, if you haven't upgraded, don't. If you upgraded and still have
PM4, use it. If you have the option of moving to a different package and
company entirely, do so.

I don't want to start a flame war or to start another discussion of merits
of different packages on this list, but I though I should pass my
experiences along to you all. If anyone has tips or comments, please
send them to me off the list.

Eric
ejray -at- okway -dot- okstate -dot- edu

>My department now has PageMaker 5.0 and its new
>TableEditor, v 2.1.  I have found that the new
>TableEditor is so smart, that it now works as a
>spreadsheet.  The drawback is that we don't want
>to make spreadsheet tables.

>For example, we now can't enter part numbers that
>contain trailing zeros (79.35010 becomes 79.3501) and
>numbers in parentheses, which we use for metric conversions,
>are treated as a negative number and sometimes becomes
>subtracted from another number in the cell.>

>If other tech writers out there are using this and have
>a solution, please write back.  By the way, our current
>solution is to use the older version of the software,
>which is not "enhanced" with the spreadsheet features.

>LaVonna Funkhouser
>Halliburton Energy Services Duncan Technology Center
>lffunkhouser -at- halnet -dot- com