That’s the good news from Lotus: the bad news is that despite the claims that Lotus spent $15m testing and debugging 1-2-3 Release 3, there may still be at least one bug in it: according to Microbytes, a supervisor for one of the big however-many-it-is this-week accounting firms reported to Byteweek that under certain unusual circumstances, the program can adjust ranges of cells incorrectly, producing wrong results with no warning – and Byteweek tests verified his claims: the snag arises when a user specifies a range of cells as input to a function and then deletes one of those cells; when the range has been specified in reverse order, when one of the two columns that anchors the formula is deleted, the range definition shifts to include the next cell even though it has no relationship to the original range.
