Re: [NTLK] QuickfigurePro - templates?

From: Calvin Grier (cgrier_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 07:15:03 PST


Template spreadsheets are great things. I'm just not sure how you'd go about
sharing that with the Newton community.

I'm actually looking for a retirement planning spreadsheet - in exchange
I'll release my mortgage calculator if I can figure out how to share it....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Glass" <jonglass_at_usa.net>
To: "Newtontalk" <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] QuickfigurePro

> on 2/21/04 9:29 PM, Dave Bellamy at dave_bellamy_at_mac.com wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else had problems using Quick Figure Works with Excel? I have
> > installed all the bits in the computer (Cube running 10.2.8) and the
Newt
> > (MP 200u) and when I launch Excel and then go to the QFW menu to launch
it,
> > Excel crashes. It would be really useful to be able to use my Newt for
> > spreadsheets as well as word processing.
> > Any ideas what I am doing wrong.
>
> It's probably because this tool was designed back before the days that OS
X
> was even conceived in the mind of Steve Jobs, and definitely before Office
> 2002 or whatever is the latest... I crash Excel also, when I try to run
the
> Macro... It is dependant on some OS 9-only communication tools, running in
> the OS 9 and earlier Communications Toolbox. I doubt we will ever get it
to
> work on the latest versions of Excel. Have you tried running an earlier
> version of Excel under Classic? I just loaded Excel 98, ran the QFExchange
> 4.0 installer, and installed the QFExchange 3 package (from this folder on
> UNNA: <http://toronto.unna.org/unna/applications/NewtonWorks/qfworks/ >)
and
> was able to upload my fuel conversion spreadsheet...!!!!! I'm amazed!
>
> So, anybody want an Excel version of the NewtonWorks spreadsheet I use to
> convert liters to gallons, and miles to km? ;-)
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland

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