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The files that go with this document are designed to help
with some of the areas that I have found to be lacking in Wingz
and Resolve.
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THIS VERSION IS TESTED AND FUNCTIONS WITH WINGZ ONLY.
Download Resolve Utilities.Sit for use with Resolve.
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If, after trying these utilities out for a few days, you would
like to keep using them, I would appreciate a shareware
donation of $5 ($7 if you would like the source code).
Send me a diskette with your payment and I will send back
a copy right away. There are no longer shareware reminders
in any of the scripts, but your honesty would be much
appreciated.
Send your donation,disk and desires for more utilities to
Mark Shier
306 E. Lowe
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
It would also be interesting to know where you got this set,
but no phone calls please.
• Startup The 'Startup' file has been compiled with text
in case you would like to copy the menu items out of it
and add them to your own 'Startup' file.
If you are not using a startup file now, simply place this one
in your Wingz folder. It will add a menu called 'Utilities'
to the end of your menu bar. This menu allows access to all
of the utilities listed below. Place the remaining files into
a foilder called Tools in your Wingz folder.
U T I L I T I E S
• Start This is a very simple but handy item which simply
returns you to cell A1. They thought of the last cell (under
the Go menu) but didn't address the common need to get back
to the start. This is particularly useful with sheets that are
larger than your screen.
• Report Print Range... calls functions from ReportRange.
Put this file into a folder named Tools in your Wingz folder.
It allows you to see the chosen cell addresses
and change them when setting the report print range.
The Wingz command under the Sheet menu only allows you to
select cells on your sheet and then establish those as the
report print range. If you want to change this setting you
would normally reselect the print range cells and choose
Report Print Range again from the Sheet menu.
With the new one under the Utilities menu, you can reset
the range by entering the new range in the dialog box
after having selected any cell (or cells). This is a much
handier way of dealing with a print range that is larger than
your screen.
• Tool is a menu version of the first five (and most commonly
needed) tools from the toolbox on the left of the sheet. The
purpose of having these as menu items is twofold.
1/ There are times,especially when using a larger screen, that
this right end position can save some nuisance mousing.
2/ If you like to use macro programs like QuicKeys™ from CE, etc.
this allows their program to address the tool change from
sheet tool to object editor tool or whatever with a keyboard
macro. For people who use more than the sheet tool on a regular
basis, this can be a real time saver.
• Range Names allows you to call functions from the file
RangeNames which should also be put into the Tools folder
in the Wingz folder.
It provides an on-screen list of all the names which you have
assigned to ranges on the spreadsheet. This list box can be copied
as needed and you can place as many boxes as are necessary
side by side on your spreadsheet. After adjusting each of the
list box windows so that all of your names are visible, you
can print them and have a permanent record of the names.
Names are normally accessed through the Names option in the
Paste Formula box under the Go menu, but they are not in
alphabetical order and they are not available for printing.
They can also be accessed with the Name menu under Go, but if
you have more than 128 names, you can't see them all and they are
also not available for printing.
• Extractor allows you to call functions from the file
CommentExtractor which like the other two, needs to be placed in
the Tools folder in the Wingz folder.
This utility is for people writing their own scripts who want
(or should want) a way to keep track of all the comments (those
great roadmaps for your memory that start with { and end with } ).
Commenting code, even simple code, is a very useful way to cut
down on the time it takes to make a change in your code or to
follow the logic you used or are using to accomplish whatever
it is that the script should do.
The extractor will prompt you to open the source script and then
it runs on its own. It will select the text in the source script,
copy it, close the file and then do its thing. Lots of comments
in very large scripts (100K+) can take some time.
When it is finished, it will mark the bottom of the new script
which it has been creating, with a statement to let you know that
it extracted all of your comments. To allow numbering of controls
i.e. {Ctr12} to be left out of the extract, it will only record
comments over ten characters long. For your reference, it will also
stamp the length of time the extract took to produce and then prompt
you to save it.
I normally save them with the same file name as the source file and
an extension of Docs.
I hope you find these utilities useful and would welcome requests
for other utilities to bridge the gap between a great spreadsheet
and a super practical great spreadsheet.
Depending on the response to this shareware, I will decide
whether or not to keep working on ways to help others speed their
production time.
I hope you like them.-MS