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#Spreadsheet????

    19-Jan-94 09:26:07
Sb: #128582-#Spreadsheet????
Fm: Roy Pahnke 74316,254
To: Richard Graff 72711,1045
Richard – The problem here with using a spreadsheet, is you are going to have one heck of a time getting the data on the screen lined up with the form that you need. Spreadsheets tend to want to take whats on the screen and allow you to fit that stuff onto either a single sheet of paper or multiple pages (inotherwords – it is usually very good a compressing or expanding print to fit the page). It is not very good at putting pieces of data at specific point on a page. A wordprocessor is probably your best bet. But you are going to have to create the exact form on the screen. (Don't worry about the math, use a calculator for that). Also like Dale said, getting a printer to go thru a 7 part form is also a stopper. It's going to have to be dot matrix and I'm not sure that WP's will print landscape to a dot matrix printer, so if your form is wide then you'll have to get one that fits the width. I short Richard, I not real positive that this project is going to work to computerize. Even and MsDos base system would have trouble with this. OnLine since 1982 Roy Pahnke – Casper WY