I think people just get confused and call spreadsheet programs Excel because that is the most well-known spreadsheet program they are aware of, just like the people who call every softdrink a coke whether it really is a coke or not. No a full version of Excel wouldn't work, but a spreadsheet program should be perfectly possible. I also want to point out that a spreadsheet should not cause any problem with the processor power and memory available on the MPower, and possibly not on the classics either. Hey, there are actually spreadsheets to run on cell phones that run the Simbian operating system and they don't have the most powerful processors and they certainly don't have a great deal of memory. I don't believe the spreadsheet programs are usable with the screen readers for the phones, though.
Another point is that although CSV files can be imported to a database as well as a spreadsheet, that doesn't make them equivalent. Outlook can import and export your address list as a CSV file, but that doesn't mean your address list is a spreadsheet. Yes, you could open that in Excel, but it would still be your address list stuffed in to a spreadsheet, not anything you would normally deal with in Excel. Only being able to have a grid of fields like a spreadsheet and being able to do calculations would do the jobs most people want to do when they ask for spreadsheet functionallity. Having keybase capable of doing calculations would be progress in that direction, and I would love that, but it still wouldn't necessarily replace a spreadsheet application. No, Humanware can't give us everything we wish for, and certainly not all at once, but please try to understand the reasons for the requests. Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
