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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel (ergonomics of printed data)
Message-ID: <48@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 88 16:17:22 GMT
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In article <6435@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) writes:
> 
> 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
> Avoid BrainDamage: MSDOS - just say no!

This is all sort of ironic (Microsoft yawning at the idea, Rich hating
MS-DOS, etc) because the DOS version of Excel does _exactly_ this. 
(There is a cell border attribute called "Shade" which shades all selected
cells.  The effect when printing to a LaserWriter is indeed "quasi-greenbar"

Wade Blomgren
wade@sdacs