PlanMaker Beta

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=70">http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=70</a><br /><br />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:<br /><br />• You must have time to test the software. <br />• You must be willing to file bug reports. <br />• You must be using Windows, Linux or Pocket PCs.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2003/20030907-planmaker.gif" />

[bbarker]

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.

[Skoobouy]

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.

[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!

[mr_Ray]

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!

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.

[SoftMaker]

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.
PlanMaker for Pocket PCs has a complete AutoShapes drawing layer to begin with... :)

[yslee]

In addition to the above, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to recalculate the spreadsheet (particularly annoying when running simulation models).

[SassKwatch]

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.

[jasonc]

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. :)