User Profile for Rick Barron

Panorama 5.5.0 (Mac OS X)

FAST, powerful, intuitive number cruncher  

I've never found a better program for crunching the numbers. I can input a 10,000-record database in about two seconds, and it appears in columns that make it easy to sort. The 10,000 records sort in about a second, and the menu selections make it easy to sort, then sort-within, which means it keeps the previous sort, like states for example, and then sort cities within that and so on to the nth degree. Once I have the info sorted the way I want, click Group and voila!, it gives me totals by state, or month, or customer, or whatever I'm trying to find. Although it does support complex forms if I'm inclined to make them, the beauty is that I can get at the information I need in an instant, without programming. I do use simple forms, and don't feel required to spend hours creating macros, although I do use the handy "text funnels" to extract the info I need from the data. Also, inputting the data by hand is helped greatly by simple commands, such as initial caps, phone number or other formats, etc. There's much, much more to Panorama than I need to use, but for me, it performs essential tasks with incredible speed and elegance. [alert admin]

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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 11:32 AM PDT

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