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- Subject: Re: Excel 4 Users Beware
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- From: david.benfell@stargate.actrix.gen.nz (David Benfell)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:24:00 GMT
- Reply-To: david.benfell@stargate.actrix.gen.nz (David Benfell)
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- banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
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- WA.You might give Quattro Pro for Windows a try. (plug plug) Its notebook
- .support is far ahead of excels workbooks. (It uses a lot of gdi too --
- .but perhaps not as badly as excel in this case.) I think QPW is on a $99
- ."deal" right now.
-
- I've been using Quattro Pro for DOS from day one and switched to
- Quattro Pro for Windows when it was released. And I agree that it it
- way out there in front of Excel 4.0. Sure, Excel has some additional
- functionality (which I don't use anyway)... But I just can't get
- enough of Quattro Pro's "Menus on Demand" by clicking the right mouse
- button and the Notebook feature is way superior than anything on the
- market.
-
- Down here, it sells for $950 NZ (the Borland WinDOS Package).
-
- Cheers
-
- David
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