Quatro Pro vs. Excel
Bill & Lisa
10 and Excel. Does anyone here have any information or opinions with
regards to the two programs and what is the most user-friendly system,
and seemingly the best?
My main use for spreadsheeting will be to inventory equipment and the
pieces data, as well as a description of that equipment, year, make,
model, etc. Then I will need to be able to put that info into a
report format to be presented to customers. Other than that, my uses
are fairly simple spreadsheet projects. I would appreciate any help
in choosing the right program. Thank you
Klaus Staedtler
> I am trying to find out the pros and cons of working with Quatro Pro
> 10 and Excel.
QuatroPro has never been released for OS/2 and the release of PMExcel
1.0 is such a long time ago that most OS/2 users won't remember that
such ever was existant.
But as soon Corel will release QuatroPro (and maybe an updated
Wordperfect, as 5.2a is now then years old but still working quite well)
you'll get answers.
Klaus Staedtler
DC
I have used QPro since V5 ... and have the latest V11. Also I have XL
(Office 2000 version and before that XL97)
So which one?
Personally I dislike MS products because they are so unfriendly and
inefficient for a serious user. For example XL is a real cludge when it
comes to producing a decent chart easily. Many of the XL functions are
inferior to Qpro and either cannot be performed or require multiple
strokes, often one thing at a time - highly inefficient. (This is much
akin to comparing MS Word with Wordperfect - e.g. try centering an image
on a page in MSWord).
Having said that, Qpro does have some real problems in the latest
versions - 10 and 11 in the charting area. Corel have installed a new
charting engine which mostly is incompatible with earlier versions .. 9
and earlier. And there are some other issues with printing and print
preview. I suggest you go to the newsgroups at www.corel.com and have a
look at the issues raised by users.
From what you said, I would recommend QPro 8 as very stable, highly
efficient and an excellent product. You would find the reporting
function - page setup, apperance and so on very easy to use.
Beyond that, the next 'best' version, almost trouble free would be QPro
9 (latest SP4 applied) although there are a few annoying glitches in the
software. At least it is compatible with graphs from earlier versions,
allows large spreadsheets and retains slide show capabilities.
The later versions seem to access XL spreadsheets better - though some
of the earlier features and functionality seems to have been lost in the
process. However, if you were starting from scratch with QPro and were
producing charts it wouldn't (shouldn't) matter is you use the latest
version 11, because you would have no charts from earlier versions to re-do.
I see you have cross posted - also in an OS2 newsgroup. I don't believe
Corel or Novel before it (Perfect Office - QPro v6) have ever developed
a version for OS2, so I'm not sure if you have any interest in OS2.
DC
DC
I have used QPro since V5 ... and have the latest V11. Also I have XL
DC
I have used QPro since V5 ... and have the latest V11. Also I have XL
Chuck Russell
almost daily. Since it is a Win 3.1 program, OS/2 has no problem with
it.
Menno
Well, I can't resist plugging Mesa 2 from Sundial Systems. I use it to
make my own spreadsheets and it does a very decent job on Excel sheets
as well. One of the good things about Mesa is that it's not a port. It
was conceived and built on OS/2. It's very fast. I use it for graphing
performance data and making lists of IP addresses and such. My most
notorious Mesa spreadsheet is one that will generate shellscripts to
make logical volumes and filesystems on AIX.
http://www.sundialsystems.com/mesa/index.html
You can download Mesa there. Until you enter a valid registration key,
you can do what you want with small (40x8) spreadsheets.
Give my regards to Big Nate and tell him the cactus order came in and
it was as sharp as he said ;)
Cheers/2,
Menno.
Isaac
Menno wrote:
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>
> Well, I can't resist plugging Mesa 2 from Sundial Systems. I use it to
> make my own spreadsheets and it does a very decent job on Excel sheets
> as well. One of the good things about Mesa is that it's not a port. It
> was conceived and built on OS/2. It's very fast. I use it for graphing
> performance data and making lists of IP addresses and such. My most
I was and still am a very heavy user of Excel (up to Office 2000) and
tried some of Quattro. For my purposes, Quattro was a bit lacking
compared to Excel, but the latest versions have made up, and surpassed
(IMHO) Excel.
I have to say, I also very much like Mesa. It is very full featured,
most people will not notice anything lacking between it and the big
suites. And, after using it for a long time and having to go back to
"normal" spreadsheets like 1-2-3, I found Mesa was _very_ easy and
pleasant to use.
There is only one catch I recently discovered and other users confirmed.
It has a bad bug when you insert/delete layers, there is an error in
updating the data referenced by graphs. In fact, this bug was so bad,
that's why I went back to 1-2-3.
Isaac
Ted Edwards
> There is only one catch I recently discovered and other users confirmed.
> It has a bad bug when you insert/delete layers, there is an error in
> updating the data referenced by graphs. In fact, this bug was so bad,
> that's why I went back to 1-2-3.
Did you report it? What was the respomse?
Ted
Isaac
I did. It's in the Sundial User Forums/Newsgroups (where other users
confirmed the bug). I also e-mailed them privately on May 9 with details
of the bug.
It's been a while now and so far not even acknowledgement of receiving
the e-mail. This is strange. Last time I had a bug, they not only
replied to me, they fixed it and sent me a special build within days I
think.
Isaac
