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PlanMaker 2010 for Windows CE |
Pocket Excel |
PTab |
SpreadCE |
Documents To Go |
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Manufacturer |
SoftMaker |
Microsoft |
Z4Soft |
Bye Design |
DataViz |
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Available for |
Windows CE, Windows
Mobile, Windows, Linux |
Windows Mobile |
Windows Mobile, Windows CE |
Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE |
Palm OS, Windows Mobile |
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Import and export |
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Reads and writes files from these desktop versions of
Microsoft Excel |
Microsoft Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007;
Excel for Mac |
Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007 |
Microsoft Excel 95, 97, 2000 |
Microsoft Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003; Excel for Mac |
Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 |
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Retains all formatting,
styles and layout of your Excel worksheets |
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Lets you view and
edit all formatting, styles and layout of
your Excel worksheets |
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Reads and writes password-protected Excel files |
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Export to HTML |
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Plain-text file exchange |
Delimited by any separator |
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Delimited by comma only |
Delimited by comma or tab only |
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Additional formats that can be imported and exported
directly from inside the application |
SYLK, RTF, dBASE, DIF, PlanMaker 1.0, 2.0, 97, 2001,
2004, 2006, StarCalc 1.0, 2.0 |
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Functions |
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Number of functions |
330 |
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Complex numbers |
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Array functions | Functions with multiple results |
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Formatting |
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User-defined colors |
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Cell borders: single |
double | any thickness | selectable color |
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Cell shades: full shade |
any percentage | fill patterns | selectable color |
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Cell styles |
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Character styles |
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Document templates |
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Conditional formatting |
(any formatting) |
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(limited format choices) |
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AutoFormat |
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Hyperlinks |
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Merge cells |
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Rotate cell contents |
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Editing |
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Supports in-cell editing |
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Syntax highlighting |
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Show formulas instead of results |
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Undo & redo |
(999 levels) |
(5 levels) |
(multiple levels) |
Undo only |
Undo only (multiple levels) |
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AutoFill | AutoFill has smart series recognization |
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Built-in spell-checking |
16 languages |
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SmartText (type "nyc" to get "New York City") |
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View magnification | fit view to selection |
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Cell comments |
(all fonts, styles, colors) |
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(plain text only) |
(plain text only) |
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Transpose cells |
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Custom lists |
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Protection |
Cells, sheets, documents |
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Cells, sheets, documents |
Cells |
Cells, sheets |
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Charts |
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Supports charting in worksheets |
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(no chart support at all) |
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chart appears only in dialog box or as icon in a cell |
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needs external proprietary software (SmartChart) |
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Fully Microsoft Excel-compatible charting module that
can display and modify any
desktop Excel chart |
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Supports 3D charts |
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Number of chart types |
70 |
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Column charts |
6 types |
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1 type |
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6 types |
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Bar charts |
6 types |
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1 type |
6 types |
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Line charts |
7 types |
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2 types |
1 type |
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Area charts |
6 types |
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1 type |
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XY scatter charts |
5 types |
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3 types |
1 type |
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Bubble charts |
2 types |
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1 type |
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Net (radar) charts |
3 types |
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1 type |
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Surface charts |
6 types |
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1 type |
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Pie charts |
6 types |
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Ring (doughnut) charts |
2 types |
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1 type |
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Cylinder charts |
7 types |
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Conus charts |
7 types |
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Pyramid charts |
7 types |
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Drawing tools |
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Bitmap image support |
BMP, 2BP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, Targa, PNG, IMG,
PhotoCD, PBM, PPM, PGM, XBM |
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BMP, 2BP, GIF, JPEG |
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Vector image support |
WMF, EPS |
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Pictures can be positioned anywhere, resized, cropped |
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Image editing tools |
Rotate, flip, align, crop, brightness, contrast, gamma |
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Fully AutoShapes-compatible drawing layer |
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Database tools |
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Filter by condition |
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up to 3 conditions |
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up to 2 conditions |
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up to 2 conditions |
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AutoFilter |
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Outliner for grouping data |
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Miscellaneous |
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Printing |
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(only through third-party for-pay software) |
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Print preview |
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Companion desktop application |
PlanMaker for Windows and Linux (identical feature set
across platforms) |
Microsoft Excel (Pocket Excel has a severely
stripped-down feature set) |
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Spread32 |
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Seamless document exchange between desktop and mobile versions |
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100% |
No, not at all. Lots of formatting is stripped. |
n/a |
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Support |
Unlimited phone, fax, and e-mail support by
manufacturer; web-based support forum |
Supported by MVP volunteers |
Manufacturer |
Manufacturer |
Manufacturer |