04-02-2002, 01:20 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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SpreadCE - there is a great third party spreadsheet
http://www.byedesign.freeserve.co.uk/
Despite what you may have read right here at Pocket PC Thoughts, there does exist a very powerful replacement for one of the Pocket Office apps. SpreadCE makes a nice replacement for Pocket Excel if you are an Excel power user. Just a few of the things SpreadCE does that Pocket Excel cannot:
�unlimited open files
�317 worksheet functions, many of them from the desktop Excel's "Analysis Toolpak."
�49 macro functions for custom functions and commands
�array formulas
�charts (column, bar, line, pie, scatter, area)
�controls (label/group box/command button/check box/option button/list box/combobox/scrollbar/spinner)
�drawing objects (line/rectangle/oval/text box)
 
SpreadCE has been around since the old Palm-sized PC days before PDA's had spreadsheets and has continued to improve and add new features. It is available in a dizzying number of languages and platforms, including HPC's,the Casio BE-300 and even desktop Windows. So, if you are a spreadsheet junkie, give SpreadCE a shot. One thing I did notice is that it doesn't appear to work with Pocket Excel files. So if you want to play with it, open up a few spreadsheets in Pocket Excel and save them as Excel files, or go into ActiveSync and turn off the conversion for Excel files. UPDATE! SpreadCE does indeed work with Pocket Excel files. When you hit File|Open, the default is to only show Excel Files. Simply hit the dropdown and select Pocket Excel Files. Duh. ;-)
Now, if we could only find someone to develop that elusive word processor that will do tables, outlining, and more than one level of bulletpoints. :-)
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04-02-2002, 03:00 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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SpreadCE - there is a great third party spreadsheet
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
SpreadCE has been around since the old Palm-sized PC days before PDA's had spreadsheets[....]
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As a perfectionist, let me state that even the first Windows CE PDAs had spreadsheets. I think my old Hitachi Windows CE 1.0 handheld did, and my Sharp Mobilon HC4500 Windows CE 2.0 handheld certainly did. The only Windows CE PDAs that didn't have spreadsheets, I think, were the Palm-Sized PCs.
So I doubt that a product called SpreadCE (emphasis on "CE") was around before Windows CE 1.0. :-) Or you are claiming handheld PCs aren't PDAs?
Steve
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04-02-2002, 03:42 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 481
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SpreadCE - there is a great third party spreadsheet
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
... So, if you are a spreadsheet junkie, give SpreadCE a shot. ...
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This is cool. This is cool.
I could probably be considered a 'spreadsheet junkie', especially in terms of macros and such. So, if it's not too buggy, I could enjoy this a lot. Lack of macros (like in Microsoft Works) has cooled me to any Excel alternative. I really had not expected to get that in a PPC spreadsheet.
Thanks for mentioning it.
At $20 for an app with all this, it makes one wonder how so many people try to get $10-$30 for apps that hardly do anything.
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04-02-2002, 05:18 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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SpreadCE - there is a great third party spreadsheet
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Originally Posted by Pony99CA
As a perfectionist, let me state that even the first Windows CE PDAs had spreadsheets. I think my old Hitachi Windows CE 1.0 handheld did, and my Sharp Mobilon HC4500 Windows CE 2.0 handheld certainly did. The only Windows CE PDAs that didn't have spreadsheets, I think, were the Palm-Sized PCs.
So I doubt that a product called SpreadCE (emphasis on "CE") was around before Windows CE 1.0. :-) Or you are claiming handheld PCs aren't PDAs?
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I guess HPC's are PDA's, but I don't think of them that way primarliy because they do not have the PDA formfactor, which is typically considered to be keyboardless with a stylus being your primary way to input.
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04-02-2002, 05:57 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I used SpreadCE on my Nino. It was an excellent tool.
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04-03-2002, 03:55 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
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If someone is considering buying an upgrade to Pocket Excel, they should consider both SpreadCE and PTab (http://www.z4soft.com/), both of which have been around at least since the Palm-sized PC days. As with any competing products, each has its strengths and weaknesses. I don't remember now why I chose PTab over SpreadCE for my Jornada 430 way back when, but I've stuck with it ever since as it's far and away better than Pocket Excel. It handles nicely tabbed multiple sheets, graphics, macros, a pile of functions (though not as many, I think, as SpreadCE), and it reads and writes Excel and Pocket Excel files in addition to its own native format. I didn't know that SpreadCE was still around, so I think I'll check it out again too. Anyone out there looking for a better spreadsheet (and anyone who actually uses Pocket Excel should be) should definitely check them both out. And I couldn't agree more with Ed... I'd love to have as good an option to replace Pocket Word! 8)
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04-03-2002, 05:20 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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Originally Posted by Rob Alexander
Anyone out there looking for a better spreadsheet (and anyone who actually uses Pocket Excel should be) should definitely check them both out.
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Well, I use Pocket Excel quite a bit, but only for one simple spreadsheet, and it's fine. I'm all for a more powerful one, of course, but not at the cost of my RAM and not if I have to pay cash for it. LOL
I've actually not put some cool games on my 3870 because I don't have a lot of room. A spreadsheet that I have to pay for will just have to wait. :-)
Steve
P.S. If you want to know what the spreadsheet is, it's just a simple restaurant thing. I type in how much each course is for each person, and the sheet calculates how much they owe, including tax and tip. It's a handy record, too, when I get home to use Quicken (or Microsoft Money -- which I haven't installed on my iPAQ yet, either). Yes, I am a geek.
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04-03-2002, 06:36 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
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MS should be down right embarrassed for Pocket Excel. These apps make Pocket Excel that ships with the PPC look like a preschooler created them. :evil:
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04-04-2002, 12:43 AM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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Geez
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
MS should be down right embarrassed for Pocket Excel. These apps make Pocket Excel that ships with the PPC look like a preschooler created them. :evil:
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Geez, come on. There's a reason it's called Pocket Excel -- because it's not a full-featured version of Excel. It's useful for banging out a few things on, but that's it.
I'd rather see improvements to Pocket Word before I see changes to Pocket Excel, anyway. Preserving formats would be one of the biggest things I'd suggest.
By the way, how good is the spreadsheet that ships with Palm devices? Oh yeah, it doesn't ship with one....
Steve
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04-04-2002, 07:13 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 192
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I spent a little time working with a budget spreadsheet on my Jornada...the small screen area really made the attempt frustrating...scrolling around was like using Pocket IE on a 1024x768 formated web page...I can't imagine needing more function power on the Jornada (unless I just want a small window and powerful functions)...if I really need full spreadsheet functions on the road, I'd rather drag a laptop along...OTOH, the price is fair...
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