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From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Appleworks 3.0
Message-ID: <10311@claris.com>
Date: 20 Jun 89 21:10:46 GMT
References: <24198@srcsip.UUCP>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <24198@srcsip.UUCP>, by shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth):
> This is probably too much to ask for but what I'd really like to see 
> in Appleworks is the ability to reference other spreadsheet and 
> database modules (perhaps on disk, especially the database).  I often
> have needs where the numbers on one file are a function of huge lists
> of constants stored in another spreadsheet or database, and being
> forced to combine these into the same file makes the whole thing
> a kluge.
> 
> Is there any spreadsheet on the Apple (or any other computer for that
> matter) that supports such a feature?
Full Impact on the Mac supports references to other spreadsheets, but the
first version of the program was very, very slow.

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