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- Ranges are rectangular groups of cells defining an area
- within which some action is to have effect. You may select
- a range using the menu items Start and End Range, with
- Alt-A and Alt-Z, and also with the mouse. Cells within a
- range are displayed in reverse video.
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- Copy, Move, Delete
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- These functions will only be available if a range has
- been selected. To copy or move a range of cells, you
- should first select a range and then place the cell
- pointer in the cell you wish to be the upper left
- corner of the destination range.
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- Row/Column
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- This menu item also is available only if a range is
- selected, and choosing this item invokes a pop-up
- menu allowing you to insert or delete rows and columns.
- Opus provides partial insertion and deletion, so that
- you may restrict the extent of the operation to the
- range selected. To operate on an entire row or column,
- click on the row or column header (this selects the
- whole row or column). You may also choose to insert or
- delete multiple rows or columns, and this is controlled
- by the extent of the range. For example, selecting rows
- 1-5 and choosing Insert Rows causes all data in rows
- 1-994 to be moved down 5 rows, opening up the 5 rows
- that were selected. However, this operation would have
- failed if say row 998 contained some data, as Opus won't
- let you move rows containing data off the worksheet.
-
- Replicate
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- Use this function to copy a cell through a range.
-
- Data Fill
-
- This function fills a range with numbers, beginning at
- some initial value to which some value (the increment)
- is added for each subsequent cell. You, of course,
- specify both values, and you also have the ability to
- fill a range with serial date values equally-spaced on a
- day, month, week, or year basis.
- Named Ranges and Cells
-
- Opus supports up to 100 named range and cell references,
- which are created through the Define Name dialog. If a
- range is selected prior to invoking this function, that
- range will appear in the "Refers to" line in the dialog.
- Otherwise, the active cell address appears. You may
- specify the references as absolute or relative, and
- named references within formulas behave exactly like
- explicit cell references.
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- Many Opus dialogs require a range or cell to be entered
- into a text field. Clicking on such fields invokes a
- reduced version of the Define Names dialog, from which
- you may select a named range or cell.
-