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POWER WORKSHEETS FOR 1-2-3
INTRODUCTION
Congratulations! We think you have made a wise choice in
buying Lotus 1-2-3. With it, your only obstacles to solving a
problem are to supply the data and define the worksheet formulas
to analyze it. While we cannot help you supply the data, we can
help with the worksheet by giving you, in this package, six
predefined worksheets to perform common analyses.
Within a few minutes of starting, you should be able to begin
entering your data and getting results. We have designed our
worksheets to be easy to use. And we have included the options we
feel you will find most useful. For example, the worksheets
contain graph definitions so you can plot your data and/or the
results of the analysis. Also we use menus, like the ones in
Lotus 1-2-3 itself, so you are never left without guidance.
Before you use these worksheets, we strongly recommend that
you make a copy of the master diskette, and that you work only
with copies, never with the master itself. There are many mishaps
that can destroy the information on a diskette, ranging from
accidental erasure to coffee spills. The safest place for your
master diskette is on a shelf, not in the machine or on your desk.
To make it easy for you to copy the diskette, there is no copy
protection on it. You can copy it as often as you like using the
standard DOS utilities.
USING THE WORKSHEETS
The worksheets in this package have been designed to help you
analyze data with the minimum of effort. They will work on any
IBM PC or compatible machine that can support 1-2-3. To guide you
on your way, each worksheet is driven by a series of menus that
prompt you with the alternatives. In addition to calculating and
displaying the results, the worksheets include options to send
them to a printer, and to produce graphs.
While most of your work with this package requires no more
than regular typing and cursor movement, we occasionally have to
use off-beat key combinations. There are only two such key
combinations we will need. One is Ctrl-Break. To generate this
combination, hold down the key marked Ctrl, and press the key
marked Scroll Lock (it has Break printed on the front). This
forces an interruption of a macro (or of other processing). You
may find you need to press the key marked Esc to get back to READY
mode in 1-2-3. The other combination is Alt-x, where 'x' is a
letter. To generate this combination, hold down the key marked
Alt while typing the letter. This combination executes one of our
macros. There are several such macros in each worksheet. In
particular, the following macros have the same meaning in all
worksheets:
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Alt-B begins execution of all the macros. Normally,
execution will begin automatically when each worksheet
is first loaded. However, you may occasionally find
you have accidentally 'broken out' of our macros (you
can tell this because the 'CMD' flag at the top right
corner of your screen will go out). To restart
execution from the very beginning, press Alt-B.
Alt-M executes the main menu. Use this to return to the
menus from 1-2-3 READY mode (ie. if the 'CMD' flag at
the top right corner of your screen goes out).
Typically, Alt-M has the same effect as Alt-B, but you
may find you need to use Alt-B to perform
initialization which Alt-M does not do.
Warning: If you use the 1-2-3 command /Move to move data into
a named range, the range name becomes invalid, along with any
formulas that refer to it. Most of our worksheets are protected
against such an event. However, the SREGR worksheet is not
protected. You should avoid the /Move command when using this
worksheet. This comment does not apply to /Copy.
When entering numbers, remember to omit any $ signs, or
punctuation, except for the decimal point. A leading hyphen must
be used if the number is negative, and a period should be used for
the decimal point if there are any non-zero digits to follow. If
the entry is a whole number, you need not enter the decimal point,
or any following zeros, even though decimal digits may appear in
the display. Percentages are entered the same way as other
numbers. Do not convert a percentage to a decimal, or use the %
key after typing the number. To enter 41.23 percent, simply type
41.23 and press the ENTER key.
THE AGENDA WORKSHEET
The AGENDA worksheet is the centrepiece of this package.
When you first enter the package, and whenever you leave one of
the other worksheets through the Agenda option, this worksheet is
loaded. It allows you to select any other worksheet in the
package. To select a worksheet, simply type the initial letter of
its name, or move the cell pointer over its name and press the
Enter key.
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