On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

That's basically what I would do (if I ever drank enough to come up with a
table with 33 columns :-)).

Paul,

  Stick with coffee.

One question to ask yourself is which is more important for the reader --
tying together clusters of columns from the same rows, or comparing rows
within one or two columns.

  The purpose is to document the input values and data for a model run.
While the PDF document will be delivered digitally, it may well be printed
(probably 100+ pages) as an appendix to the final documents. This is all for
regulatory compliance, so chances are high that few will actually read
through everything. However, if there's a lawsuit we need to have documented
everything that was fed into the model.

  And keep in mind that the regulations defining and implementing the
federal government's Paperwork Reduction Act took several hundred pages to
print out. :-)

Rich

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