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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL -> Wingz
Summary: Wingz doesn't link spreadsheets, or split windows, ....
Message-ID: <796@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 02:46:54 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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>I have been using Wingz on my Plus, and it is perfectly useable, and
>much faster than Excel.  Then only problem is when you do 3D graphs - 
>these are real slow, and it updates them (redrawing the entire graph)
>much too often.

Well, I just got my copy of Wingz by the special offer.  I was a bit
tired of MS software, and it was worth $99 to take a peek at an alternative.

My impression: a neat tool, but I can't use it without a significant
change to how I do things.  For one thing, I use a number of spreadsheets
in different folders, with a couple of master sheets that are linked to
the scattered detail sheets.  As near as I can tell, you can't link
spreadsheets at all in Wingz.  I really like having changes to my bank
balances or receivables charts show up immediately in the Net Worth
spreadsheet.  I could do this with one big sheet in Wingz, but then
I would lose some of the flexibility I now enjoy about how the sheet
looks, and where it is.

The other thing is that some of my spreadsheets are HUGE.  Of course,
Wingz can handle the size, but when I'm in the midst of the sheet, I
can't see the row and column heads.  In Excel, I handle this by splitting
the window.  I can't see a way to do that in Wingz.

So it looks like it's a tool I'll use for presentations, which is where
it's got itself positioned.  Too bad, I don't do that very much.

I keep hoping for the one tool that will do it all for me.  I know,
dream on....