Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!cie590l From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Questions about Excel, forsooth Message-ID: <8176@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 1 Oct 89 22:43:19 GMT References: <1229@marlin.NOSC.MIL> Sender: cie590l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia Lines: 29 In article <1229@marlin.NOSC.MIL>, jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones) writes: > I hope there are some Excel users out there. I've been using Lotus for > a long time, but I'm switching to Excel. I have some questions for any > gurus there might be: > > Is there a way to configure the directory to be something other than the > "windows" directory? This was easy in Lotus, but I'm having trouble > seeing how in Excel. Either start Excel from the directory where you want to work (my approach), or change directory within the dialog box when you open a file. > > Is there a way to configure excel so that the particular choices you > like in the menus (Page Setup, for instance, or Display) come up as > defaults instead of having to be redone each time you open the program? I'm not sure about that. > > Is there a way to get to DOS from in Excel, like you can do in Lotus? With Windows, running DOS is a rare event. Because it is multi-tasking, you can switch out of Excel and run something else in parallel. In fact you can have several programs active at any one time. > -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |