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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: V.I.P. Professional
Summary: I recommend it
Keywords: VIP Professional, Spreadsheets
Message-ID: <823@laura.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 08:12:32 GMT
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Reply-To: klute%trillian.irb@unido.UUCP (Rainer Klute)
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In article <968@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> cape@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Robert M. Cape) writes:
>I am looking for a decent spreadsheet for my ST.  By decent I mean one which
>can stand up favorably when compared to the likes of SuperCalc 4 or Lotus 123
>on the PC.  I have a copy of A-Calc, which is a nuisance (accuracy to too few
>decimal places).  VIP Professional is supposedly a Lotus 123 clone.  Has anyone
>had experience with it?  I don't care whether it uses a GEM interface or not;
>just it's accuracy and capabilities.

Since several years I am working with VIP Professional and can
recommend it. It is said to be Lotus 123 compatible but I
cannot prove that because I never used 123. However, I bought a
textbook for 123 to get used to VIP Professional and havn't had
any problems.

I don't have the program at hand but I think the accuracy of
VIP Professional is about 13 decimal places or so. - With large
spreadsheets the calculation speed is boring. It seems that the
whole spreadsheet is recalculated even when only a single cell
has changed. I help myself with "manual" recalculation from
time to time.

Besides the pure spreadsheet functions VIP Professional has
macros and graphics (and a GEM interface).

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