hi experts - if you help thanks in advance

im working with excel 2003 and wondered if a cell can be given a number of
values
my thoughts are if a cell represents a sales value can it also hold a budget
value as well. i think i have read of this but im not sure if its just with
text values

of course if the cell can hold 2 values can we derive a third value

thanks in advance .......
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C Ward

I don't really think that a cell can hold two values in a true sense.
But then how about comment object associated with a cell? Comment can
be exploited to store 2nd value in the cell. Of course using it for
mathematical manupulations etc will be difficult but it could be done.
But I can't visualise such a requirement of storing two values in a
cell.

A V Veerkar


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pushing the bounds of software is always a good thing to do and the example
i gave is not my practical work rather i was trying to give an easy example

if we could store a series of array values in a given cell we could store
all sorts of information making excel have an extra dimension as such , i am
currently working on such a problem - most olap technologies do a similar
idea to this as did the old multidimensional spreadsheets from IBM and Lotus

a cell could be said to have attributes or properties - i guess a comment is
a type of attribute about a cell but this is where my thoughts are

--
C Ward


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I don't really think that a cell can hold two values in a true sense.
But then how about comment object associated with a cell? Comment can
be exploited to store 2nd value in the cell. Of course using it for
mathematical manupulations etc will be difficult but it could be done.
But I can't visualise such a requirement of storing two values in a
cell.

A V Veerkar


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<pushing the bounds of software is always a good thing to do

I don't agree at all.
Using elements of software for purposes that they weren't meant for is one
of the least sensible things to do. Sooner or later you'll find yourself in
trouble. It is not uncommon to blame the software provider in such cases,
but the real cause is of course misuse.

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Niek Otten


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pushing the bounds of software is always a good thing to do and the
example
i gave is not my practical work rather i was trying to give an easy
example

if we could store a series of array values in a given cell we could store
all sorts of information making excel have an extra dimension as such , i
am
currently working on such a problem - most olap technologies do a similar
idea to this as did the old multidimensional spreadsheets from IBM and
Lotus

a cell could be said to have attributes or properties - i guess a comment
is
a type of attribute about a cell but this is where my thoughts are

--
C Ward


"avveerkar" wrote:


I don't really think that a cell can hold two values in a true sense.
But then how about comment object associated with a cell? Comment can
be exploited to store 2nd value in the cell. Of course using it for
mathematical manupulations etc will be difficult but it could be done.
But I can't visualise such a requirement of storing two values in a
cell.

A V Veerkar


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I always work to 2 principals -

user friendly and cost effective

nor do i think my questions are fantastic in nature - therefore bounds of
software is a limited term , i guess we all use what we feel happy with ,
poor software design is in no ones interest but at least im suggesting items
that excel shoudl really be able to do - limitations in spreedsheets are well
know and it is why the OLAP tools boom in may ways

an im not blaming anyone - just asking a number of questions - the client i
have in this case only has excel knowledge and little money for new capital
expenditure

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C Ward


"Niek Otten" wrote:

<pushing the bounds of software is always a good thing to do

I don't agree at all.
Using elements of software for purposes that they weren't meant for is one
of the least sensible things to do. Sooner or later you'll find yourself in
trouble. It is not uncommon to blame the software provider in such cases,
but the real cause is of course misuse.

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten


"christopher ward" wrote in
message ...

pushing the bounds of software is always a good thing to do and the
example
i gave is not my practical work rather i was trying to give an easy
example

if we could store a series of array values in a given cell we could store
all sorts of information making excel have an extra dimension as such , i
am
currently working on such a problem - most olap technologies do a similar
idea to this as did the old multidimensional spreadsheets from IBM and
Lotus

a cell could be said to have attributes or properties - i guess a comment
is
a type of attribute about a cell but this is where my thoughts are

--
C Ward


"avveerkar" wrote:


I don't really think that a cell can hold two values in a true sense.
But then how about comment object associated with a cell? Comment can
be exploited to store 2nd value in the cell. Of course using it for
mathematical manupulations etc will be difficult but it could be done.
But I can't visualise such a requirement of storing two values in a
cell.

A V Veerkar


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