Check the listing for details. LDW POWER SPREADSHEET Atari 520/1040 ST/STE NEW IN BOX(ds drive). Condition: Brand New. Listed at 19.95 USD. "LDW Spread Sheet" Lotus compatible Spreadsheet. New with Disks & manuals. Everything is brand new. For Atari 520/1040ST/STE, Mega & Stacy. Version 2.0 From Review: When you run the program the first thing you'll see is an empty worksheet. Above it is a control panel with a menu bar, a row of buttons and indicators, the status line and an input line. You can open up to four worksheet windows at once and each worksheet is 256 columns wide by 8,192 rows deep--large enough for any projects I can envision. Getting around the worksheet is fast and easy: you have the choice of mouse or cursor controls plus Home and End buttons. This is one of the ex- ample spreadsheets that come with LDW Power. The power of this program is im- mediately evident. The worksheet cells are very easy to work with and any cell can contain a label, a number or a formula. Error-catching on cell entries is also good. The program alerts you if you have too many digits for a number cell by inserting a string of asterisks. Changing the cell size to accommodate a larger entry is accomplished easily with a quick trip to the Worksheet menu. If you enter a formula or function incorrectly or fail to indicate that a label contains numbers, the program catches your mistake and makes you fix it. LDWP also catches circular references and displays an indicator' until the problem is solved. Judging by its presentation, LDW Power is not aimed at the absolute spreadsheet beginner; there is no tutorial. This is a far cry from Lotus, which reminds you to spell "install" correctly. LDWP's 232-page manual is relatively brief by IBM standards, but is reasonably well-written and intelligently organized and has an index, glossary and quick-reference. There are also onscreen help messages. There are also four totally undocumented sample worksheets in a folder named EXAM on the Utility Disk. One of these samples, DEALERN.LDW is driven by several extensive macros which graphically demonstrate the LDWP's power. There are 85 functions, including the math, statistical, financial and logical functions that you expect in powerful spreadsheets, plus 19 string functions for manipulating and evaluating strings. You can use the 12 date and time functions to insert information from the clock anywhere in the spreadsheet. Finally, there are 12 special functions, including horizontal and vertical lookup. These extremely powerful functions let you specify a value, either numeric or string, and search the first row or column of a range for it. When the value is found, another value in an adjacent, previously specified row or column is reported back to the cell occupied by the function call. Using these functions you can search your spreadsheet and report values back automatically. LDW Power offers substantial database capabilities, including two sort levels and data query operations used to search for and output specific records. LDW offers a choice between a Lotus- style or GEM inter- face. This is the Lotus interface--the choice takes one keystroke. An excellent feature of LDW Power is its macro recorder that lets you record keystrokes as they are executed and store them as a macro in a cell. Even better, the macro language used by LDW Power is Lotus-compatible. LDW Power is designed to behave pretty much like Lotus while still taking full advantage of the GEM environment on the Atari. Unlike previous Lotus clones for the Atari, I think LDWP has accomplished this well: the GEM interface is tight and the Lotus likeness is very credible. There are some minor differences, but most of them spring from a well-engineered linking of the Lotus commands with the GEM shell. As in Lotus itself, the Lotus command mode is activated by pressing the slash key. Immediately, the Lotus command menu is displayed above the worksheet. Converting Lotus files to LDWP format is extremely easy. I tested this by asking a friend to prepare a few Lotus .WK1 files on 3 1/2-inch IBM disks. I loaded these spreadsheets into LDW Power using the same Retrieve command that LDWP uses to load its own files. The worksheets loaded without a hitch. Creating .WK1 files using LDWP power is a little more complex: you first have to save the file and exit LDWP to use a conversion program supplied on the Utility Disk. LDWP also reads Lotus .WKS files directly, broadening the range of worksheets available from third-party sources. (Editor's Note: See Online with START this month for sources of free 1-2-3 templates.) Click here to review my terms & conditions. "If you do not understand something about an auction then PLEASE contact us and get an answer you understand before purchasing. EBAY NOW CHARGES FEES ON SHIPPING AND HANDLING. WHEN YOU BUY MULTIPLE ITEMS AND PAY BEFORE WE SEND A COMBINED INVOICE YOU MAY PAY A LOT OF EXTRA SHIPPING."