Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!merlin.usc.edu!girtab.usc.edu!malczews From: malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Spreadsheet Information Request Message-ID: <5736@merlin.usc.edu> Date: 13 Oct 89 00:22:29 GMT References: <65816@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <216@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@merlin.usc.edu Reply-To: malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 25 In article <216@dg.dg.com> uunet!dg!daver (Dave Rudolph) writes: >In article <65816@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > >>My understanding is that >>Wingz requires all linked spreadsheets to be in memory (i.e. open) in order >>to update calculations across all of the spreadsheets while Excel does not >>require me to open all of the linked spreadsheets. Is this true? > >Yes, this is true, and it is one of the more annoying features of Wingz. >Aside from a few minor annoyances like that, I highly recommend Wingz. > >David Rudolph >uunet!dg!daver Just read today (in MacWeek) that Wingz is upgrading everyone to 1.1 sometime within the next week or so; a number of feature enhancements to appease ex-Excel users were apparently added, a new graph type or two, etc. But, no mention was made of the spreadsheet linking weakness. Anyone have any info on whether this was enhanced? (I will likely be finding out sometime soon, I guess, one way or the other :) -- -- Frank Malczewski (malczews@girtab.usc.edu)