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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet recomendations??
Message-ID: <1463@agora.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 01:21:58 GMT
References: <5160031@hplsla.HP.COM:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <5160031@hplsla.HP.COM:, by tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns):
: Can anyone out there recommend a _good_ spreadsheet for Amy?  I've
: been trying to use MaxiplanPlus (version 1.9B; supposedly the
: absolute latest) and getting gurued regularly.  It's ridiculous
: for any serious work.  I don't need graphics, but would appreciate
: them if they could be output to a plotter, or to a graphics printer
: in a high resolution mode (better than a bitmap from the screen).
: But what I really do want is solid functionality without gurus.
: I use the IRR function quite a bit, and in Maxiplan, it locks the
: machine if you try it on a cashflow that would yield a negative
: IRR (then gurus if you try to start anything else).  I also get
: gurus just trying to select ranges sometimes.  Also get them if I
: try to change the printer margins when I have a spreadsheet up.
: And several more...

	We had one of our user group members drop some hints about the
newest rendition of MaxiPlan at our last meeting. It's now called Plan/IT
and is being marketed by BEST, the people who do the business software. 
Version 2.0 is essentially a debugged version of MaxiPlan. They've been
shipping 2.0 for several weeks, but only as part of some bundled software
(maybe only available in Europe...) Version 3.0 adds a whole bunch of 
very nice features and was supposed to be shipping long before our next
meeting... (This coming tuesday :-}) I don't know if 3.0 is really out yet,
but I do know that BEST tends to hold off on release until the software
*really* works.

: Tom Bruhns
: tomb%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com
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