-=> Quoting Charles Beams to Sheila King <=-
 CB> Hmmm...interesting.  I think I would do just the opposite.
 CB> Spreadsheets  contain much more power and tons of stuff that 6th
 CB> graders will have  little use for.  Using a database (such as MS Works)
 CB> with the ability to  do simple calculations and organize data in a
 CB> simple format would be  more useful to 11-year-olds.  No?  Perhaps my
 CB> view of this is clouded by  the fact that I use the database software
 CB> far more often than  spreadsheet software.
This only begs the question: Are they really all that different? Hell,
my wife used to open up an 80 character-wide column in Lotus and use
it as a text editor :) I think probably a smattering of the three
basic applications in something like Works wouldn't hurt, especially
showing them the _differences_ and how to cut and paste data from
one to the other.
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