RE: Gnumeric Q..

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: larry@marso.com [mailto:larry@marso.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:14 PM
> To: Michael Meeks; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Gnumeric Q..
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 02:18:02PM -0400, larry@marso.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:43:25AM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	AFAIK no, I can think of several good reasons for this such as
> > > consistancy, unambiguous cell referencing, code 
> simplicity. Furthermore
> > > does Excel allow this ?
> > 
> > Excel, and Lotus' main spreadsheet product "123", have 
> never allowed this.
> > If you want to name a column, designate a row for column names.

There is something similar to renaming columns in Excel for as long as I can
remember using it.  (switched from lotus 123 after release 3.4 for dos;) )
You can give columns names so that you can call them by name in formulas.  I
just checked it out, and it leaves the header of the column the same (is
still says A) but there is a small box that shows what the "name" of the
column is.  I agree that we should keep the columns and rows lettered and
numbered, but could we add headers to the top of columns and/or rows?  I
wouldn't think that it would be that ugly to do, except that you could have
multiple names for a given row/column/cell.  
	Greg

> > 
> > Lotus did announce with a hoopla a few years back a 
> "revolutionary" new
> > spreadsheet product that permitted you to name columns and 
> transpose, swap
> > and do various matrix operations.  (Anybody remember the name?)  
> > 
> > Nothing came of it.
> 
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