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3.2 Loading an Existing Spreadsheet
NExS saves spreadsheets in specialized files, usually with the file
type .xs3 attached to the end of the spreadsheet name. These files contain
the entire definition of the spreadsheets, including formats and graphs.
The .xs3 file format consists entirely of printable characters.
This makes it easy you to copy NExS files from one system to another regardless
of the operating system or file structure. It also means that NExS spreadsheets
can be mailed among systems without additional processing.
NExS can also access spreadsheets in several other popular formats:
.xs sheets compatible with previous versions of NExS; xls sheets
produced by Microsoft Excel version 5.0 and 7.0 (BIFF5 and BIFF7 format),
and .wk1 and .wks sheets compatible with most other spreadsheet
systems. NOTE: NExS 1.4 has limited support for BIFF8 (Excel
97).
You can get an existing spreadsheet, view it, change it, recalculate
it, and then save it (overwriting the original version) or exit without
affecting the original version. You can load and use spreadsheets from
other spreadsheet programs or load column-format data from text files.
For more information about loading data from text files,
refer to Chapter 10, Interacting
with Other Applications.''
To load an existing NExS or WKS/WK1 spreadsheet:
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Select Open... from the File menu. NExS displays the Open
Sheet dialog box as shown in Figure 3.1.
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Select the type of spreadsheet file you wish to read: .xs3, .xs,
.wk1, .wks, or .xls.
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Click the Selection entry box and type the name of the spreadsheet
you wish to use, or select a spreadsheet by highlighting its name in the
Files list using the mouse. Adjacent to the Files list is the Directories
list. The files shown in the Files list are those files found in the directory
whose name is highlighted in the Directories list. The dialog box displays
an alphabetical list of all spreadsheets whose names meet the criteria
in your File Filter. If the list is large, all the document names
may not fit in the box.
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To move the selection highlight, use the up and down arrow keys, or move
the mouse pointer to the desired name and click.
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To scroll through the list of document names, click the up and down arrows
along the right side of the list box or drag the scroll box.
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To jump to a specific alphabetical section of the list, type the first
character(s) of the name of the document you are looking for in front of
the asterisk (*). The dialog box then displays the first spreadsheet name
beginning with these characters.
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To select a spreadsheet, double-click on the spreadsheet name, or click
the name once and then click the OK button. NExS opens the spreadsheet
with the same window size and position that were in effect when the file
was last saved.
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To select a different directory, double-click on the directory name in
the Directories list. NExS then displays the names of files in that
directory in the Files list. (The .. entry allows you to
change to the next highest level of the directory structures.)
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To avoid opening a spreadsheet after viewing the dialog box, click Cancel.
If you do not find the spreadsheet name you are looking for,
check the File Format and the File Filter in the dialog box to make sure
you are searching in the correct disk or disk directory and for the desired
spreadsheet type.




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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999