Re: Spreadsheet for GS

[billh@lsid.hp.com (Bill Harris)]

Lim Thye Chean (ltchean@iss.nus.sg) wrote:

: What is the advantage of Quick Click Calc over AWGS spreadsheet module? Is
: it worth the upgrade?

I use both on an unaccelerated GS, and I find I use AWGS for two reasons:
it's faster in general, and some of the menu picks are faster to do (e.g.,
simple cell formatting).  (I also use it for things like taxes which are
just modifications of the previous year's spreadsheet.)

QCC's advantages are the _much_ greater control over formatting, the better
(almost anything would be better, but it _is_ much better) graphics, and
the publish/subscribe feature.

: What are the known problems of AWGS spreadsheet module? 

If you haven't used AWGS, don't set it up to preload modules automatically.
That makes it unstable, so I'm told, and it does seem quite stable since I
stopped doing that.

Doing graphs of spreadsheet data is pretty weak in AWGS.

: Why the "=Today" never seems to update automatically when I open the worksheet?
: I have to manually edit the cell and force it to update. Any suggestions?

Actually, I think I like this.  I'd really like two functions: one that
worked like that and one that updates automatically. 

I get really frustrated when I forget and insert a date in a document with
a function only to find that the date changes every time I view the
document.  

Bill

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