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From: a526@mindlink.UUCP (Brad Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Excel v2.1c
Message-ID: <3254@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 21:10:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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Is anyone else having troubles with this thing?  I just installed version 2.1c
of Microsoft Excel, the one that is supposed to work with Windows 3.0.  I have
Windows 3.0 installed and have had no trouble with it.  I have installed Excel
in the same directory as Windows, and it is definitely in my DOS path.

Now the problem -- when I run Excel all looks fine except for a couple of
things:

        1) When you select any of the items on the Help menu, the disk drive
crunches away for a short while and then you are returned to the worksheet as
though nothing was requested of it.  Pretty cocky behaviour for an application
in my opinion.  :)

        2) When entering formulas it will invariably cough out a ERROR IN
FORUMLA error if you start entering a second parameter for the formula --
regardless of whether you are selecting cells by mouse or typing in the vector
by hand.  Specifically, bith of these give me an error at the first comma:

        =LOOKUP(B4,C1:C20,D1:D20)
        =SUM(B1:B5,B12:B16,B19:B21)

but the problem is by no means restricted to these examples -- any
multi-parameter formula chokes.

My hardware is a C&T 386 25 motherboard with 4 megs memory and a 287 math chip.
Is the 287 the culprit here?  I notice that Excel checks fo a coprocessor, so
maybe it doesn't know that a 386 can have a 287 in it?

Thanks in advance for help!
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