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From: shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: AW V3.0 Bug?
Message-ID: <985@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 17:09:11 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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I run into what I believe is a bug in Appleworks V3.0  The problem is that 
it occurs in something so basic with the report generator in the data base 
that it casues me to question whether or not its a bug.  Anyway here it 
is:

I created a simple data dase and am trying to print a report with a 
calculated column. I started out complicated and worked back to simple. 
What I wanted was a column whose value was:

    (B*D)-(C*D)		SIMPLE RIGHT?

well all I got for the column when I printed it out was #######.  the 
column was plenty wide. Now lets get simple!

    B*D			WORKS GREAT!

    (B*D)		PROBLEM! GET #######

I even tried the example in the manual on page 9-16 (the only place they 
talked about calculated catagories!) with the same results.

Is this a BUG or a feature :-)

/chris

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