12-15-2003, 06:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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PlanMaker Beta
http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=70
SoftMaker, the makers of the insanely popular and powerful word processor TextMaker, is seeking beta testers for PlanMaker, the spreadsheet component of their own office suite. Requirements are:
� You must have time to test the software.
� You must be willing to file bug reports.
� You must be using Windows, Linux or Pocket PCs.
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12-15-2003, 07:17 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 578
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I expect PlanMaker to be an excellent application, both on Windows and on the Pocket PC. TextMaker is superb and very much worth its realtively high price I paid a year ago ($50 I think). I'm looking forward to PlanMaker as well. These guys are good.
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12-15-2003, 07:36 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 279
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SoftMaker is great, but Pocket Excel isn't as crippled as Pocket Word, and there are already very inexpensive apps to fill in the graphing functionality. I don't think the demand will be nearly as high for this as it has been for TM.
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12-15-2003, 08:15 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 110
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I really think excel is pretty crippled:
1. Search feature stinks - you have to close and re-search to find another occurance
2. Split and freeze screens don't work. A very valuable thing on a small screen.
And I'm not even a power user!
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12-15-2003, 08:43 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 221
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Originally Posted by Kathy_Harris
I really think excel is pretty crippled:
1. Search feature stinks - you have to close and re-search to find another occurance
2. Split and freeze screens don't work. A very valuable thing on a small screen.
And I'm not even a power user!
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Pocket Excel seems fine to me.
(Working on a 2210)
1 - Search works and has a little "next" button for me to go to the next occurance. Admittedly you have to go through the menu again to do a different search.
2 - I'm an avid split screen user in Excel, and do the same in PXL. I have found it works perfectly as expected. What problems have you seem?
I agreee with Skoobouy - Pocket Excel is in a different league to Pocket Word. What I do miss though is VBA, Pivottables, querying external data, charts, drawing, etc.
With the exception of Charts I don't think you can expect all that much more until the PPC technology advances quite a bit.
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12-15-2003, 09:10 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by mr_Ray
What I do miss though is VBA, Pivottables, querying external data, charts, drawing, etc.
With the exception of Charts I don't think you can expect all that much more until the PPC technology advances quite a bit.
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PlanMaker for Pocket PCs has a complete AutoShapes drawing layer to begin with... 
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12-15-2003, 10:39 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 451
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In addition to the above, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to recalculate the spreadsheet (particularly annoying when running simulation models).
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12-16-2003, 02:33 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 566
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For my purposes, spreadsheets are the one app that just scream out for landscape mode on a PPC. It certainly comes in handy in other apps as well, but spreadsheets *almost* seem to require it.
And obviously, that's not going to be handled within the app itself.
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12-16-2003, 02:18 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 29
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Well, if you guys can wait until next 11/11, you might be able to pick up this software for $11.11. I was able to pick up Textmaker for that much recently.
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Linear Mode
