Re: printing suggestions

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

This has been reported before: see 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59498

Ys, I also think it'd be nice to fix this - but in the meantime, we
should correct the manual. As for "expr-entry widget": As far as I know,
this is the field that accepts range of cells as input; it can be
entered manually (A1:C10) or you can select a range of cells with the
mouse. Quite agree - jargon like this doesn't belong to the manual. But
I thought the manual was cleaned out - which version of Gnumeric do you
have?

Sasha

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 09:28, Dan Drake wrote:
> First, let me thank the Gnumeric developers; for a while, I used
> StarOffice, but I never like it at all. I find Gnumeric much easier to
> use.
>
> I have a couple suggestions for the print setup dialog. I'm a teaching
> assistant in the math department at the University of Minnesota, and I
> have to hand in gradebooks at the end of the semester (naturally I keep
> them in Gnumeric) and I want to repeat columns on every page. The
> spreadsheet looks like this:
>
>
> Name         Homework 1      Homework 2
> John Smith   10              8 ...
> Jane Doe     9               9 ...
>
>
> I'd like to repeat column A (the name) on each page, so in the Print
> Setup -> Sheet dialog, I went to the "Columns to repeat on the left
> side" box and typed "A" -- which doesn't work. It was only after a lot
> of messing around that I figured out to put "A1:A65536" in that box to
> make it work.
>
> The online manual wasn't helpful; it would be nice if it included an
> example to show you what kind of input is required. It would also be
> nice if that dialog box accepted just letters, since that's the most
> intuitive way of referring to columns.
>
> Also, the manual refers several times to the "expr-entry widget". What
> is that? It doesn't seem like the term is defined anywhere in the
> manual, and I can't even find out what it is using a Google search!
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Dan
>
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