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- presentation and help with disc space.
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- I notice that in many of the function slots you use the function sum to
- prefix any simple sum, difference or division, for example
- sum(firstslot-secondslot). This makes the spreadsheet bigger and slows
- down operation. You can enter firstslot-secondslot (without brackets)
- and the sheet will be smaller and recalculate more quickly.
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- The sheets with and without an outline font appear the same on my
- system because PipeDream reverts to system font if it can not find the
- specified font. Hence I am considering publishing only one copy of the
- spreadsheet, the one without the font.
-
- Having studied it, I wonder if it might be better to split the
- spreadsheet into two, one for the standard rate and a separate sheet
- for the night rate?
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- Finally (on the spreadsheet), I think that it is unnecessary to enclose
- both the blank sheet as well as an example. I'm not sure what is the
- best way of dealing with this sort of think but often the best approach
- is to fill in the first few rows as a worked example and later rows
- with the general formulae in such a form that they can be replicated
- easily down (or across) the sheet.
-
- Now to your other problems.
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- In PipeDream it is not possible to selectively delete the grid. In the
- past I have used a separate graphic to produce a grid but this is a
- very fiddly job and I don't recommend it. Of course, it would be
- possible to use a combination of Wordz and PipeDream to do exactly what
- you want but PipeDream and Wordz are not hot linked! Resultz will be
- hot linked to Wordz and the PipeDream spreadsheet should be easily
- 'ported' into Resultz. Maybe that is the long term solution!
-
- Your question about 'screen print' and your use of the sum() function
- make me wonder if you are more familiar with the 'PC world' rather than
- the 'Archimedes world'? To 'screen print' from the Archimedes first
- you need to capture your screen as a sprite. You do this by loading
- the application !Paint and 'grabbing' the whole screen as a sprite.
- You do this by clicking the menu - middle - mouse button with the
- pointer placed over the installed (on the icon bar) !Paint icon. The
- sprite can then be printed from the !Paint application or, if you wish,
- loaded into a different application (such as PipeDream) and printed
- from the other application.
-
- So far as printing in colour is concerned you need a colour RISC OS
- printer driver suitable for your printer. Generally these are provided
- by the suppliers of the printer but, if you have RISC OS 3, then you
- may find that one of the printer drivers supplied by Acorn will 'work'
- with your printer. Many people have had problems setting up RISC OS 3
- monochrome printer drivers (I think there is something about that
- subject on the disc you have) so I'm not going to embark on that
- subject right now!
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- I do hope that this helps. Please let me know how you get on.
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