Spreadsheet software

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John said:
Never heard about this print problem with Sphygmic. The screenshot
does show a print button in the toolbar. Melinda, can you clarify this
point?
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I don't know which one it was, but I downloaded a freeware one once that
had a Snoopy-looking icon, and there was no print function on it. I was
*asking* if it was that one, because I know I have downloaded that one
before, but I don't have them any more to check which one it is.
 
IIRC the print function doesn't work - a work-around is to copy using
Ctrl C and paste it into another program to print.
Yes, I knew it had been on pricelessware, and I wondered how it made
that list after downloading it and trying it out.
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The Pricelessware program description:

<quote>
SPHYGMIC SPREADSHEET
With the Sphygmic SPREADSHEET you get all the functions you need in less
than 4MB! And all this for free! Last Freeware version - not featured on
their site, but available for download.
Download: Version 1.0 [ftp://ftp.agoron.com/vendor/sphygmic/SSSHEET.ZIP]
(3.8 MB)
Home Page: SPHYGMIC
</quote>

I've only found a much smaller download package - suspect some
functionallity may have been removed in the currently available version.
Just a guess . . .
I think that a
freeware, stand-alone spreadsheet could really fill a niche if one were
available that could perform reasonably.
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Agree. :)

Susan
 
Max and Melinda, The OP was only looking for "fairly routine number
crunching". He never said anything about it needing to be compatible
with Excel. Never heard about this print problem with Sphygmic. The
screenshot does show a print button in the toolbar. Melinda, can you
clarify this point? My only reservation about this program is it's age.
It used to be Pricelessware.

IIRC the print function doesn't work - a work-around is to copy using
Ctrl C and paste it into another program to print.
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Wow, that is priceless! I'd say that's just a little bit worse than a
"bug."

--
Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
I second the endorsements of OpenOffice. It's a full-featured Office
Suite, including an up-to-date spreadsheet app. Sphygmic is very
limited in my experience, and won't offer the compatibility with newer
Excel files that OOo does. I like OOo so much I even download it on my
dial-up connexion. Go for it!
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I third the OO endorsement. After downloading and installing Sphygmic
on Win2k, I got it to load, but that's all. Had to kill the process
in task manager. I noticed that it didn't register as an installed
program in Add/Remove software. What is it, an old 16-bit app?
 
Melinda said:
I don't know which one it was, but I downloaded a freeware one once that
had a Snoopy-looking icon, and there was no print function on it. I was
*asking* if it was that one, because I know I have downloaded that one
before, but I don't have them any more to check which one it is.
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Gotcha.

It would be nice if there was a newer and problem free stand alone
freeware spreadsheet then. 80)>
 
TW said:
I got it to load, but that's all. Had to kill the process in task
manager. I noticed that it didn't register as an installed program
in Add/Remove software. What is it, an old 16-bit app?
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I think you may be right about Sphygmic being 16-bit. My experience
using it on my old Win98SE box was barely better than yours. For the
cost of some time downloading, OOo is outstanding.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Larry Smith) wrote in


When it's a specific freeware app I want, I try SoS before Google.

<http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/Apps2.html> is where his link to
Sphygmic is.
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I just used the link successfully. Needed a fresh install pkg for
my new computer.

I've used Sphygmic since '98 to do my taxes, works fine. Don't
recall printing anything. I use it to perform accurate calculations
then copy the numbers to the 1040. The computer copy IS my backup
copy. "I don't need no stinking print out." :-)

BoB
 
BoB said:
"TeeChart Office is a completely free software for creating graphic
Charts easily and quickly." It may do calculations too but tain't
a spreadsheet.

BoB
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Well, I thunked it was a spreadsheet. I downloaded it after reading about
it from a link I found in this NG. It has been sittting on my hard-drive
uninstalled. It is only recently I tried using it but I did not have the
help file downloaded. I have yet to download the help file, although I have
the link bookmarked. I use As-Easy-As from Triusinc.com and have for years.
I am always looking for a nice spreadsheet and believed this steema one was
a go to try. Sorry I misremembered and wasted your time.

" I am not as think as you stoned I am"

:-?



--
lsj7

"Germany is sheerly swallowed up by the merchants and companies, by
means of usury. Usury lives all secure in Germany, and rages as if he
were God and lord in all lands; no one may oppose him."
_____________Martin Luther
 
Well, I thunked it was a spreadsheet. I downloaded it after reading about
it from a link I found in this NG. It has been sittting on my hard-drive
uninstalled. It is only recently I tried using it but I did not have the
help file downloaded. I have yet to download the help file, although I have
the link bookmarked. I use As-Easy-As from Triusinc.com and have for years.
I am always looking for a nice spreadsheet and believed this steema one was
a go to try. Sorry I misremembered and wasted your time.

" I am not as think as you stoned I am"

:-?
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No big problem. I remember AsEasyAs but don't have a copy any more.
I still have a free version of Spread32 and SSsheet that dates to '93.

I'm always watching for SS's too. Think an SS this would be a good
request for the Priceless Wish List?

BoB
For the duration, my address is fake.
 
BoB said:
I'm always watching for SS's too. Think an SS this would be a good
request for the Priceless Wish List?
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Probably - need a list of the features wanted that existing freeware
doesn't have . . .

Susan
 
BoB said:
No big problem. I remember AsEasyAs but don't have a copy any more.
I still have a free version of Spread32 and SSsheet that dates to '93.

I'm always watching for SS's too. Think an SS this would be a good
request for the Priceless Wish List?

BoB
For the duration, my address is fake.
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I finally installed it and used it a couple of times. I may not be the
sharpest tool in the shed, but seems to me ya got to be a rocket scientist
to use the steema thing. I got the help file --subscribed to their usenet
newsgroup--no response to my queries yet--and still have not figured it out.
I need to know how to have text labels across the bottom _X axis_with option
of 90 degree or no........left justify the columns--athough steema calls the
columns "series"....and make the y axis values or text say what I want in my
scale. One problem I have encountered is the more series you have is that
the colored bars become skinnier and skinnier--instead of staying the same
width. You can have a peek here for my first try at it...any experience
with this proggie??

http://www.smartgroups.com/pictures...ureID=16590682&Layout=L&Sort=ordernum&Dir=ASC

thanx, anywhoo






--
lsj7

"Germany is sheerly swallowed up by the merchants and companies, by
means of usury. Usury lives all secure in Germany, and rages as if he
were God and lord in all lands; no one may oppose him."
_____________Martin Luther
 
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