What is Trapeze?

Trapeze from Data Tailor fills some of the gaps left by power spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. If you didn’t know there were any gaps left to fill in Excel, you will after you try Trapeze. It not only frees you from the usual row and column constraints of a spreadsheet, but also allows you to input text and graphics. The program lets you position data, numerical results, graphs, and text in separate blocks with the ease and flexibility of a desktop publishing program. Trapeze is most useful for scientists, business people, and engineers who want to create, print, and store text and graphics with their spreadsheets.

Trapeze does not skimp on raw spreadsheet power either. Besides the usual functions, the program includes database capabilities, matrix operations, amortization, and other functions. The program supports the 68881 math coprocessor and added memory, but the current release does not have macros. Trapeze lets you solve problems that would require complex worksheets and macros in Excel. For example, you can perform five different matrix inversions with one function in Trapeze, or use multiple linear regression for trend analysis. If you add anodier factor for data analysis, the program simply expands and adjusts the data. In Excel you would have to redo your macro. Updating old reports is also gready simplified, since the data, graphics, and text components do not require separate files.

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Download Trapeze for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

• 512 KB RAM

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac