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	<title>Comments on: Free beta testers wanted</title>
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	<description>Simon Murphy on professional spreadsheet development stuff</description>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marcus
All good feedback thanks. Its just a simple freebie (hacked off some client work), hence the basic-ness. Your additional features might make an interesting commercial app, and is something I have in the back of my mind for a 'one day...' (VB6 of course)
Double click - good catch, I de-select edit in cell, so I always forget that.
I have an installer as part of the index thing on codematic free tools, I just didnt bother here as its just a copy, version 2 maybe? (that resets the links too so I could use buttons instead of dblclick.
Yep send it through, and see my next post about structure, look like we are on the same wavelength.
Cheers
Simon
ps I'm not a big Excel forms fan remember ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marcus<br />
All good feedback thanks. Its just a simple freebie (hacked off some client work), hence the basic-ness. Your additional features might make an interesting commercial app, and is something I have in the back of my mind for a &#8216;one day&#8230;&#8217; (VB6 of course)<br />
Double click - good catch, I de-select edit in cell, so I always forget that.<br />
I have an installer as part of the index thing on codematic free tools, I just didnt bother here as its just a copy, version 2 maybe? (that resets the links too so I could use buttons instead of dblclick.<br />
Yep send it through, and see my next post about structure, look like we are on the same wavelength.<br />
Cheers<br />
Simon<br />
ps I&#8217;m not a big Excel forms fan remember ;-)</p>
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		<title>By: Marcus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I started playing with an add-in prototype. Would you like me to send it through?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started playing with an add-in prototype. Would you like me to send it through?</p>
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		<title>By: Marcus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A couple of initial thoughts before I played with the tool:

I can only imagine this is for experienced Excel users or developers becuase I can't imagine my mother copying a worksheet from one workbook to another.

If this is for a broader audience could something be done about the asthetics? Yes, yes, yes, I know form over function. But at the end of the day pretty pixels sell.

'Blank rows and spaces are fine'
Aaargh. Now you're just messing with me.

'Error, The worksheet 'Fred' was not found in this workbook'
Good, recognises when I'm trying to trick it.

Leaving the cursor blinking in the cell after a double click may confuse some. How about de-selecting the cell after the double click.

If I may be so bold, are there other ways this functionality may be implemented? For example an add-in.

You could add a menu option to an existing menu or create a new 'Codematic' menu (to which you could add more tools as you develop them). While the  add-in (native) wont securely protect you code, it's more than what there currenly is.

Clicking the Print Manager menu option would display a dialog from which you could select any combination of worksheets from a list box.

You could then assign a name to that combination of worksheets.

Why stop at worksheets, in a given worksheet, couldn't you select one or more ranges or range names?

While you could store these details in the registry or an ini file I'd probably use the workbook custom properties. That makes each workbook self describing if people in a team want to share workbooks.

Could users select a macro they want executed before and/or after printing the selected worksheets? For example to refresh data from an external data source?

Regards - Marcus</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of initial thoughts before I played with the tool:</p>
<p>I can only imagine this is for experienced Excel users or developers becuase I can&#8217;t imagine my mother copying a worksheet from one workbook to another.</p>
<p>If this is for a broader audience could something be done about the asthetics? Yes, yes, yes, I know form over function. But at the end of the day pretty pixels sell.</p>
<p>&#8216;Blank rows and spaces are fine&#8217;<br />
Aaargh. Now you&#8217;re just messing with me.</p>
<p>&#8216;Error, The worksheet &#8216;Fred&#8217; was not found in this workbook&#8217;<br />
Good, recognises when I&#8217;m trying to trick it.</p>
<p>Leaving the cursor blinking in the cell after a double click may confuse some. How about de-selecting the cell after the double click.</p>
<p>If I may be so bold, are there other ways this functionality may be implemented? For example an add-in.</p>
<p>You could add a menu option to an existing menu or create a new &#8216;Codematic&#8217; menu (to which you could add more tools as you develop them). While the  add-in (native) wont securely protect you code, it&#8217;s more than what there currenly is.</p>
<p>Clicking the Print Manager menu option would display a dialog from which you could select any combination of worksheets from a list box.</p>
<p>You could then assign a name to that combination of worksheets.</p>
<p>Why stop at worksheets, in a given worksheet, couldn&#8217;t you select one or more ranges or range names?</p>
<p>While you could store these details in the registry or an ini file I&#8217;d probably use the workbook custom properties. That makes each workbook self describing if people in a team want to share workbooks.</p>
<p>Could users select a macro they want executed before and/or after printing the selected worksheets? For example to refresh data from an external data source?</p>
<p>Regards - Marcus</p>
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		<title>By: Dennis Wallentin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dennis Wallentin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I only test unmanaged/managed COM based tool :-) :-) :-)

Kind regards,
Dennis</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I only test unmanaged/managed COM based tool :-) :-) :-)</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />
Dennis</p>
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