Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!emory!stiatl!tom 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 References: <1229@marlin.NOSC.MIL> Reply-To: tom@stiatl.UUCP (Tom Wiencko) Organization: Wiencko & Associates, Inc. Lines: 30 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 -- Tom Wiencko (w) (404) 977-4515 gatech!stiatl!tom Wiencko & Associates, Inc.