Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!straka
From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel (was Word 4.0)
Message-ID: <6435@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 12:51:35 GMT
References: <802@wheaton.UUCP> <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes:
>In article <802@wheaton.UUCP> beng@wheaton.UUCP (Ben Greenwald) writes:
>>I saw a beta version of Word 4.0 at the MacFest here in Chicago on 10-6.

>but I often need to stick simple graphics around text, or putting a 
>grey background behind a table, and going to Pagemaker to do it is a pain.

Related question, different product:  When I called uSoft about this request,
it was greeted with a YAWN:

In Excel, why couldn't there be a "quasi-greenbar" effect generated?  For
instance, a light shading of so many rows every so many rows for readability.
Since Excel spits out rectangles with text on top of them as a printing
method, it would seem to be trivial.  If you generalized it to another cell
attribute like the outline attributes, it would be even simpler.

Am I the only person interested in the ergonomics of printed data?
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

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