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- From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
- Message-ID: <74390@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:14:44 GMT
- References: <3312@voodoo.UUCP> <mike_steiner-131192131315@192.35.50.131> <1992Nov16.195857.10289@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes:
-
- >The integration isn't quite a seamless as it sounds. If you put a
- >spreadsheet into a word processor document as described here, the SS is
- >effectively pasted on top of the WP document. It isn't really IN the WP
- >document. If, for example, you create a SS in a WP document to create a
- >table, and then add text to the paragraphs preceeding the table, the
- >text will flow underneath the "table" and disappear. You have to move
- >the "table" around manually to sit on top of the space that you've
- >created in the WP document (again, manually). You can cut and paste the
- >SS into your WP document, and it will follow the text around, but the SS
- >will no longer be "live" - it will be just like in MSWorks.
-
- Create both word processing "frames" and spreadsheet "frames" and
- connect them together instead. Now the word processing will flow
- correctly. See the manual for more details.
-
- --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
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