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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
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