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- POWER WORKSHEETS FOR 1-2-3
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- INTRODUCTION
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- USING THE WORKSHEETS
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- THE AGENDA WORKSHEET
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- 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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