| Microsoft Excel 1997 -- Online Help. |
....as being hard to use, and many people prefer to work with spreadsheets. However, spreadsheets do not scale well; large data sets lead to inordinate delays with point and click operations such as sorting by a field, scrolling, pivoting, or jumping to particular cell values or row numbers. MS Excel 97 permits only 65536 rows in a table [Exc] sidestepping these issues without solving them. Spreadsheet users typically want to get some information by browsing through the data, and often don t use complex queries. Hence usability and interactivity are the main goals, and delays are ....
....to work with spreadsheets. However, spreadsheets do not scale well; large data sets lead to inordinate delays with point and click operations such as sorting by a field, scrolling, pivoting, or jumping to particular cell values or row numbers. MS Excel 97 permits only 65536 rows in a table [Exc] sidestepping these issues without solving them. Spreadsheet users typically want to get some information by browsing through the data, and often don t use complex queries. Hence usability and interactivity are the main goals, and delays are especially annoying. 1 User preferences can be ....
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