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From: mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel and hidden columns--feature!!
Keywords: columns, note sequence of letters at the top :-}
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Date: 4 Mar 91 19:18:06 GMT
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1. The fact that the progam does not work as *you* expect it to
is not sufficient evidence of poor design or even bugs. The fact
that you, perhaps inadvertantly, used a feature with which you
were not familiar, does not mean that the program is poorly
designed. One author writes that this type of mistake is too
easy to make. How so?? If you are not paying attention, how is
Excel supposed to know that you did not mean to click and drag
here on the column titles? Do you want Excel to ask you every
time: "Are you sure you want to change the column widths of
columns E-J"? Surely not!!
2. On the matter of some indicator being required to show the
user that he or she has set the column width to zero:
When I use Excel I have "Show column/row headings" turned on.
This shows me a sequence of letters!!
Like A     B     C     D     E     F     G     H
If I look at the top of the worksheet and it goes:
     A     B     E     F     G     H     I     J
then I assume that C-D are zero width. Is this perhaps the sign
you seek? :-}
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