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From: rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL
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Date: 12 Jun 89 19:06:00 GMT
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/* Written 10:55 pm  Jun 10, 1989 by jb28+@andrew.cmu.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
I have not used Wingz, but I have heard that it is a pig (big, slow).

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I have been using Wingz on my Plus, and it is perfectly useable, and
much faster than Excel.  Then only problem is when you do 3D graphs - 
these are real slow, and it updates them (redrawing the entire graph)
much too often.
I intend to move all my spreadsheet and graphing work from Excel and
Cricket Graph to Wingz.  Three things I would like to see in Wingz are:

ability to graph non-adjacent columns more easily, like in CG
error bars (I didn't see any mention of them in manuals)
ability to update external references without the external document being
	open

yes, Wingz is big - I have to turn off multifinder to use it since I
only have 1M - but Word 4.0 and LightSpeed C have the same problem, 
so I'm just resigning myself to running finder until I get more memory

David Rudolph       rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois