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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel WARNING!!
Message-ID: <5932@marble.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 91 04:15:01 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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Well, several people have written to say that this            
ability to reduce columns and rows to zero width                  
or height is a feature and not a problem.      
                                                   
This article was a warning of a potential pitfall
of Excel, not a bug report.  Geeeeze.

I AGREE, this is a nice feature, but can also be                 
an easy way to really mess up a novice or even
not so novice user.  If you are unaware that 
some columns or rows are invisible, even if            
you know about this feature, you can get some                
very erroneous results.  In a large spreadsheet       
this can readily be lost in the details.      
 
It is far too easy to be selecting a group of rows
by the click and drag approach and inadvertantly
click on the boundry between two rows and, in the
twinkling of an eye, reduce multiple rows of 
data to invisibility.

IMHO I believe that some sort of tag should be               
shown, indicating that rows or columns are            
hidding.  Anyone seen V3.0 yet?

"Once bitten, twice shy", but I bet that I get
stung again by this problem.
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