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From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Appleworks GS Questions
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:42:08 GMT
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  A friend asked me to help with some Appleworks GS questions he had and
we ran into a couple of problems.

  Since database reports are created as word processing documents and those
documents can't be more than 8" wide, we can't get database reports more
than 8" wide.  Is there any way around that?  (We've wound up copying the
database records into a spreadsheet and manipulating that, but it's not
ideal and I expect we'll run into memory problems eventually.)

  We've also found that the program bombs when we try creating a report
using subtotals.  We get the message "No more occurences of text found"
and then, after pressing the dialog button, we get another dialog box
with the message "A serious system error has occurred" and the machine
has to be rebooted.
  He was told by Claris that he has insufficient memory (he has a bare
bones 1.125 meg Rom 3), and I suspect that's true, but it does seem
as if the error message should be more relevant.  Has anyone else ran
into a similar problem?  How much memory should he get to run
Appleworks GS without continual serious memory problems?


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