Hi, I'm not great with numbers and technology, but spread sheets are great. The thing is, we just don't want everything to be in narrative form. So, the spread sheet is squares of intersecting lines. Going across, they are called rows; going vertically, they are columns. In turn each row in lettered a through z and each row numbered. So each square has a label indicating both number and letter. Because of this format, all someone has to do is say the number and letter and a person can go directly to that spot. With materials that might have hundreds of pieces of data, these work great. My budget is always set up on a spread sheet, but on a PC. I would think the BN would do really well with this; after all visually a blind person doesn't have to see the entire thing, which is what sighted people want to do. But to quickly access data and keep a clear record of where things wre changed, it's wonderful. Also, people doing statistics can put the info on the spread sheet, making it much easier to, say, compute something like standard deviation. Maybe in a couple of years PDI will work this into a system - BN or something newer. Have a great weekend. est to all, kat
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terri Pannett Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:25 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] spreadshets Can someone tell me what a spreadsheet is? What do you do with them and why would it be a good feature for the BN to have? Excuse me for being so dumb! Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
