True enough. However, I have people that thinkpressing one extra key to
performa task that should be automatic is too 60's.... I went the way of the
MS Note... creatig an Excel spreadsheet that 'looks' just like the original
document and they are happy.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Okay, you're not using form fields. I missed that. But "manually
recalculated" just means you need to press F9. You could easily write a
macro that would Ctrl+A, F9 (and this is already automatic when you print,
provided you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools |
Options; in fact, switching to Print Preview will often do the job).