Disk No: 2002 Disk Title: Quattro & 1-2-3 for WordPerfect PC-SIG Version: S1 Program Title: Quattro & 1-2-3 to WordPerfect Author Version: 1.02 Author Registration: $25.00 Special Requirements: Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro, Word Perfect. QWP.EXE may make life easier for editors and others who frequently must incorporate spreadsheets into WordPerfect documents. QWP.EXE converts Lotus 1-2-3 (Versions 1A and 2.1) and Quattro (Versions 1.0 and 1.1) spreadsheet files into WordPerfect 4.2 files. These may be read directly by WordPerfect Versions 4.2 - 5.0. QWP.EXE allows column alignments to be maintained when the WordPerfect user wishes to incorporate a spreadsheet into a document formatted for a printer using proportional spacing. This offers an advantage over the commonly used technique of "printing" spreadsheets to an ASCII format disk file and importing them into WordPerfect, because the conversion process translates all tabs into a fixed number of spaces. QWP.EXE automatically calculates an appropriate tab format for each line, even as data types change. Most users who are already familiar with Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro and WordPerfect will find QWP.EXE's documentation adequate to get them started. However, they should be prepared to experiment a bit in order to produce exactly the results they want consistently on the first or second try. Once they are familiar with the program, however, this investment in time will be repaid when they no longer have to spend hours reformatting or retyping a spreadsheet because they couldn't get the columns to line up in a WordPerfect document formatted for proportional spacing on a laser printer. A potential frustration in the learning process is that, despite its relative ease of use, the error handling of QWP.EXE is weak. The program queries the user for information regarding things such as the name of the output file to be created, the spreadsheet ranges to be converted, what borders to include, etc. At certain points, hitting ENTER without providing the requested information or trying to ESCAPE from a prompt to which you don't know the answer may result in the system hanging and needing to be rebooted. However, this is an inconvenience which, hopefully, will be addressed in future versions of QWP.EXE and not a fatal flaw. The registration provisions are unusually generous, allowing a registered user to make an unlimited number of copies for all machines located at a single street address. PC-SIG 1030D East Duane Avenue Sunnyvale Ca. 94086 (408) 730-9291 (c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.