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- Disk No: 2002
- Disk Title: Quattro & 1-2-3 for WordPerfect
- PC-SIG Version: S1
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- Program Title: Quattro & 1-2-3 to WordPerfect
- Author Version: 1.02
- Author Registration: $25.00
- Special Requirements: Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro, Word Perfect.
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- QWP.EXE may make life easier for editors and others who frequently must
- incorporate spreadsheets into WordPerfect documents. QWP.EXE converts
- Lotus 1-2-3 (Versions 1A and 2.1) and Quattro (Versions 1.0 and 1.1)
- spreadsheet files into WordPerfect 4.2 files. These may be read
- directly by WordPerfect Versions 4.2 - 5.0. QWP.EXE allows column
- alignments to be maintained when the WordPerfect user wishes to
- incorporate a spreadsheet into a document formatted for a printer using
- proportional spacing. This offers an advantage over the commonly used
- technique of "printing" spreadsheets to an ASCII format disk file and
- importing them into WordPerfect, because the conversion process
- translates all tabs into a fixed number of spaces. QWP.EXE
- automatically calculates an appropriate tab format for each line, even
- as data types change.
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- Most users who are already familiar with Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro and
- WordPerfect will find QWP.EXE's documentation adequate to get them
- started. However, they should be prepared to experiment a bit in order
- to produce exactly the results they want consistently on the first or
- second try. Once they are familiar with the program, however, this
- investment in time will be repaid when they no longer have to spend
- hours reformatting or retyping a spreadsheet because they couldn't
- get the columns to line up in a WordPerfect document formatted for
- proportional spacing on a laser printer.
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- A potential frustration in the learning process is that, despite its
- relative ease of use, the error handling of QWP.EXE is weak. The
- program queries the user for information regarding things such as the
- name of the output file to be created, the spreadsheet ranges to be
- converted, what borders to include, etc. At certain points, hitting
- ENTER without providing the requested information or trying to ESCAPE
- from a prompt to which you don't know the answer may result in the
- system hanging and needing to be rebooted. However, this is an
- inconvenience which, hopefully, will be addressed in future versions
- of QWP.EXE and not a fatal flaw.
-
- The registration provisions are unusually generous, allowing a
- registered user to make an unlimited number of copies for all
- machines located at a single street address.
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- PC-SIG
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- Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
- (408) 730-9291
- (c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.