ProCalc Problems
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ProCalc Feedback —————format worksheets.
2. If you drag highlight a range, and move the mouse below the window, it
should highlight everything to the bottom of the window. It currently does
not highlight a couple of rows.
3. Went to use the Garamond (PS) font. PCalc actually gave me CG Garamond
Antiqua. (I had that installed as well.) DPaint properly selects the
correct Garamond, so the fault must be with PCalc.
4. Style tags should not be over-ridden by styles. For example, I can
change the color of tagged numbers. Tags should be absolute.
5. Wishlist: ability to change the height of rows.
6. It would be nice if pressing return would advance to the next cell (as
set in prefs), just as if you had entered a value in the cell and then
pressed return. This makes leaving blank cells in a ledger type worksheet
difficult because you have to look at the screen to see where you are.
7. I made a worksheet 50×50. Tried to resize to 30×50. Said it couldn't
change the dimensions. There was nothing in the columns. I selected it and
deleted it, and then tried to resize, but no luck. Why?
8. Still more crashes when accessing the font requester. Just clicking on
the A icon for the first time after loading a worksheet will occasionally
cause a guru on my system. (3000/25/2.04). It has nothing to do with the
top left cell as I earlier thought. It's just random. It seems to happen
with a particular spreadsheet for a while. It'll guru, you'll reload, try
it again, guru, until finally it works. Then the problem goes away for a
few days. Wierd.
Mike
I can't get the following ProCalc functions to work:
LINKDISK() returns "Logic: Spreadsheet not open" with sheet1 on disk
and not in memory
syntax used: =LINKDISK("dh2:procalc/sheet1", F8)
ROUND() and LROUND() do not round, they truncate.
if F8 holds 3.785, =ROUND(F8,-1) returns 3.7
=LROUND(F8,1) returns 3.7
LRANGE() returns "Syntax: expecting a value" and the G in LRANGE is
highlighted in red in the entry window, with sheet1 loaded
in memory
syntax used: =LRANGE("sheet1",C4:F8)
Any suggestions? My machine is an A2K w/ 68020/68881 5MB ram.
I've tried most of the other Boolean, financial, math, index, and misc.
functions; they seem to work properly. I haven't tried the database
functions.
Freeze/Unfreeze works in an unexpected way. It clones a column/row and
freezes the left or uppermost version only. I can get used to that, just
can't imagine why it works that way.
Otherwise I'm not so disappointed in ProCalc as you. I think the outlining
function in ProCalc is an instant "gotta-have" feature; it supports the way
I like to think about numbers – wallow in them like S McDuck in his money
bin. 🙂
I guess we should be addressing these messages to Darlene instead of to
each other. 🙂 I haven't tried any of the functions you mention. Outlining
is something which I have to try soon. I'm not disappointed in ProCalc. I
think it's a neat program, but the font guru is driving me batty, and I
desperately need line and box tools to make invoices and stuff.
Mike
Mike,
I've been taking ProCalc comments to Gold Disk. Don't think that they
aren't being seen by the right people.
Malcolm