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From: a523@mindlink.UUCP (Frank Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Quesion about Spreadsheets
Message-ID: <604@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 00:45:47 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> foxm writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <12890@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
> Posted: 17 Oct 89 19:36:58 GMT
> 
> Org.  : University of Colorado, Boulder
> Person: Mike Fox
> 
> 
>    The problem: A construction company wants to standardize the way they do
> bids. They will use a spreadsheet program to enter bids. What they are
> running into is that there are so many catagories that making a large
> worksheet is not practical. The goal is to make the worksheets quickly and
> easily.
>    I'm wondering if there is a way to store rows of a worksheet and then
> insert them into the worksheet. The ideal procedure would be a pop-up
> window from which the desired items could be selected and inserted into
> the sheet. Is there a spreadsheet or utility that will do this?
> 
> 
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> foxm@tramp.colorado.edu          Internet


Humm, sounds like you could write a Lotus 123/VP-Planner macro to save a
portion of the spreadsheet to a DIF file, and export the DIF file to DOS.  Upon
loading the next spreadsheet, you could write a macro to import the DIF file,
insert it in the spreadsheet, and recalculate.

Hope this helps...

Frank Murray
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