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From: woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: Re: Is there a spreadsheet/database combo program?
Keywords: spread sheet, database, linked, lotus, dbase
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Date: 19 Oct 90 17:09:51 GMT
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In article <1990Oct19.163313.15580@terminator.cc.umich.edu$ jkenyon@us.cc.umich.edu (Jim Kenyon) writes:
$In article <1990Oct19.032936.6557@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov$ cyamamot@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Cliff Yamamoto) writes:
$$for a way of searching for a item in a database (w/ some predicate), then
$$once the entry or entries have been found, bring it's values into the
$$spreadsheet.
$$
$$*THEN* if I change a value in the spreadsheet which affects the values
$$for one of my spreadsheet entries, it's new updated value is reflected
$$in the database respectively.
$$Cliff Yamamoto
$
$Try Lotus Symphony -- I thought it was a spreadsheet cum database.
$Also, Ashton Tate Framework might be of interest....

or if you want to do it on the cheap, try MicroSoft WORKS...

also, LOTUS-123 and Quattro (BORLAND) both have limited database
capabilities built in... maybe you could.....

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