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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL -> Wingz
Summary: Try Trapeze.......
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Date: 23 Jun 89 19:59:27 GMT
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In article <796@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root) writes:
....lots of wishes for things in a spreadsheet....
>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....


Trapeze suports spreadsheet linking and has window splitters.  It also
has much better graphics than Excel, supports colour, imported PICTs, 
text blocks with styles, etc.  It doesn't do 3D graphs, but has everything
else you mentioned.  It is also one of the best for scientific and
engineering applications---try doing linear algebra in Excel with the
notation one normally learns at school (presuming it is still taught).
Trapeze is also fast with good FP support, in calculations and graph
plotting.
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Simon Tortike, Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering,
The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6.
simon@alberta.uucp || simon@cs.UAlberta.CA || Tel. +1 403 492-3338