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From: tom@stiatl.UUCP (Tom Wiencko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel, forsooth
Message-ID: <7113@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 00:40:40 GMT
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In article <1229@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes:
>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.

Depends.  If you are running the runtime Windows, probably not (but I'm
not sure.  If you are running a retail version of Windows, sure:
just install (or copy) it in whatever directory you like.  Mine
is in a directory called \excel.

>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?

Not that I have ever figured out.  You could write macros to set things up,
but I have not gotten around to doing that.

>
>Is there a way to get to DOS from in Excel, like you can do in Lotus?

Not that I have figured out, with the runtime windows anyway.  I use
it with Windows/386 which lets me run a DOS window as a virtual machine,
which solves my problem.  But if you are using the runtime-windows which
comes with Excel, you are probably out of luck.

Tom

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