09-07-2003, 06:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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PlanMaker For Pocket PC Nearing Beta Release
http://www.softmaker.de/pmp_en.htm
From the folks that brought you the popular Word replacement TextMaker comes PlanMaker 2003 for the Pocket PC, a full blown Excel replacement.
Key features include:
� Powerful, yet easy-to-use multi-platform spreadsheet
� Available for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Linux
� Excellent Microsoft Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 filter
� Over 300 worksheet functions
� Powerful chart module
� Create drawings, flowcharts, etc. right inside your worksheets
� Outliner
� Password protection of worksheets/workbooks/whole documents
� Unlimited undo/redo
� Spell-checker for 16 languages, hyphenation (within text frames) in 36 languages
Beta testing will begin shortly. Pricing has not yet been set. There will be a version for Windows and Linux users as well.
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09-07-2003, 06:29 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 140
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�SoftMaker is currently developing a powerful, yet easy-to-use spreadsheet named PlanMaker 2003. Retail price will be in the US$ 50/EUR 60 range.�
Wow that seems a little pricey, no? I hope that this price is just NOT for the PDA version... If so, then forget it, I'll cotinue to deal with the built in PocketExel.
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09-07-2003, 06:31 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Actually, I'd expect it to cost that much; it looks like a full-featured desktop-equivalent piece of software. It's not that simple to create a tool that lets you do professional 3D charts on the Pocket PC, you know. 
--janak
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09-07-2003, 06:41 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 153
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uh, uh uh......
must have that NOW!
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09-07-2003, 06:45 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Wow that seems a little pricey, no? I hope that this price is just NOT for the PDA version... If so, then forget it, I'll cotinue to deal with the built in PocketExel
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If it's as good as Textmaker, it's worth every penny.
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09-07-2003, 07:17 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 66
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:multi:
At Last! A spreadsheet that's a bit more than a grown up calculator! I'm at the front of the queue...
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09-07-2003, 07:30 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,041
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Yeah, I got an e-mail from them yesterday. Very good. Textmaker is super cool. I wish I was better at fully exploiting Excel to make this a must have purchase.
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09-07-2003, 07:37 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 88
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Great!
Yet another 50 $ spent to get the features that should've been bundled in the original package in the first place! :devilboy:
I applaud SoftMaker for their fantastic apps. It's MS I hold grudge against.
Cheers,
Rok
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09-07-2003, 07:39 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Rok
Yet another 50 $ spent to get the features that should've been bundled in the original package in the first place! :devilboy:
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I don't know about this; Pocket Excel is fairly anemic, but this is beyond and above what I feel a freely-bundled version should include. A lot of labor goes into software like this.
--janak
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09-07-2003, 07:49 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Rok
Great!
Yet another 50 $ spent to get the features that should've been bundled in the original package in the first place! :devilboy:
I applaud SoftMaker for their fantastic apps. It's MS I hold grudge against.
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The Pocket apps on the PPC were never meant to be full featured versions. Believe it or not, except for tables in Word perhaps, they both fulfil most of the features that people actually use on the desktop. I still get spreadsheets that instead of using =sum() someone adds everything up with +A1+A2+A3+A4...+A10, or worse, just retpe +35+56+68+98..+69 in the total row.
It is great there are third parties taking care of the deficits. I'm glad they are in fact. When a bug is found, it is far more likely that it will be fixed without having to wait for an OS update or worse, buy a new device. I find myself using less and less of what comes with the PPC and just using it as a great platform. I would say WMP is is the only app that fulfills my needs, and I still supplement it with CEPlaylist for playlist management.
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