Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

I used to keep an enormous Appleworks spreadsheet that tracked user ratings
of Eamon adventures. It was so hard to use that I wound up duplicating key
columns and rows over and over again so that I could keep track of what I
was doing on my IIe's tiny screen real estate.

I find myself much fonder of spreadsheets when they are run at 1024 or 1278
resolutions. <g>

Tom Zuchowski


<tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 3a3420a9@ecn.ab.ca">news:3a3420a9@ecn.ab.ca...
> dev.null@personal.information.com wrote:
> : Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
> : > Reread my message. Resizing huge images may not be a common activity
in most
> : > businesses, but big, high-resolution screens are a proven productivity
> : > enhancer. Anyone who has used Excel at 640x400 and then moved to a
1280x768
> : > desktop on a big CRT will know exactly what I am talking about. I can
think
> <snip>

>     And as to spreadsheets - that's _the_ number one reason to use
>     a higher resolution. More cells on screen; with the higher the
>     resolution used. T'would be similar for desktop publishing I'm
>     sure; but word processing doesn't benefit from more resolution
>     AFAIC; as once one can see all margins, with sufficient letter
>     size (readability); then any higher resolution will perform no
>     useful purpose other than letting workers two cubicles away be
>     able to clearly read what you're writing. Not ALL `modern soft
>     ware can benefit from greater resolution. I also saw this with
>     TXT-based screens (ye olde green-screen) - spreadsheets showed
>     more cells with a higher resolution and, again, if the monitor
>     was `too small' - then the benefit gained by having more cells
>     was countered by the shrinking of the onscreen character size.
>
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