[X4U] Re: Spreadsheets that can split window > 1 time

[stephen e. schwartz]

slightly OT, but Microsoft Word 5 (various versions) allows you to open
multiple copies of the same document; they are all mirrored, so change
something in one copy and it makes the change in all; real nice for looking
at multiple places in the same document. or cut from one place in the
document and paste into another without having to scroll around. close any
duplicate copy and it doesnt prompt you to save; only when close the last
remaining open window does it prompt you to save. nifty software design,
sadly lost in later versions of that software.

-steve

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>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:19:52 -0500
>From: Michael Elliott <michaelelliott at mac.com>
>Subject: [X4U] Spreadsheets that can split window > 1 time
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>Sorry for the cryptic subject, but hard to describe what I'm looking
>for.
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>I'm still using Appleworks as my primary spreadsheet application.
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>I have tried to make a transition to another spreadsheet app, but
>found that one feature in Appleworks keeps me hooked on it:  the
>ability to split the spreadsheet window into more than two vertical or
>horizontal panes.
>
>Excel and MarinerCalc allow splitting of the window once vertically
>and once horizontally, into 4 separately-scrollable panes.  But I need
>to split the window into 3 both verticaly and horizontally.  (I have
>some complex spreadsheets in which I need the top, bottom, and side
>columns and rows of the sheets to stay put, while I move around the
>center.)  AppleWorks allows this, but I can't find the functionality
>anywhere else.  I've Googled, but can't seem to find anything.
>
>Perhaps this functionality exists in Excel and other spreadsheet apps,
>through some other means? Any suggestions?
>
>Michael