The new editing feature lets users drag and drop variables into a grid while designing either tables or table templates, called wafers. Data can be dropped in from tables created with previous versions of the software. HTML spreadsheet Publication-quality output in Adobe PostScript or Portable Document Format has been possible for several years, Weeks said, but Version 5.01 can display a PostScript table on screen for interactive editing. Users also can produce HTML-formatted tables and subsequently open them in a spreadsheet for further analysis. Batch jobs also are new, Weeks said.
Users can write short scripts to run frequently compiled tables automatically.