Everybody has to work with figures...

... and wants to create attractive worksheets.

Being able to handle complex calculations is only part of the story. If you want to persuade your audience, you have to create visually pleasing worksheets that help you state your point.

PlanMaker makes it easy for you to add a touch of beauty to your work. The AutoFormat command lets you choose an elegant layout for your worksheets with a single mouse click. However, if you prefer to apply formatting to individual elements of your worksheet on your own, you can still do so. You can apply shading to cells, put borders around them, merge multiple cells into one, and even rotate cell contents.

Conditional formatting changes the appearance of cells depending on their contents. Formatting that is applied repeatedly can be stored in stylesheets.

PlanMaker lets you draw freely in your worksheets. This lets you add emphasis to a result in your worksheet or to illustrate your point.

A complete AutoShapes drawing module has been integrated into PlanMaker, together with a comprehensive library of pre-created graphics and symbols. Each AutoShape can be filled with arbitrary solid colors, gradients, picture fills, or patterns.

Charts that convince your audience

PlanMaker 2012 turns plain numbers into eye-catching charts that impress your audience.

Even common chart types such as column or bar charts are elegantly painted with color gradients, transparency, and perspectively correct fills. Soft shadows and selectable light sources create spectacular effects.

You may choose among 70 chart types in 2D and 3D, and you can customize every single aspect of your charts.

PlanMaker. Calculation and presentation made simple.

PlanMaker is a spreadsheet that not only puts powerful strong calculation functions at your disposal but also lets you turn your results into impressive charts with the press of a key.

If you are coming from Excel, switching to PlanMaker is painless. Simply install it and continue using all your Excel worksheets.

Quickly switch between zoom levels

It's a rather small thing on the PlanMaker screen, but an eminently useful one: The new zoom slider in the status bar lets you quickly change the zoom level at which worksheets are shown.

Easy data exchange

• Direct document exchange with PlanMaker 2012, 2010, and 2008 on all operating systems
• Opens and saves XLS and XLSX files of Microsoft Excel 5.0 to 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection
• Import and export wizard for text files and dBASE databases
• Create PDF files directly from PlanMaker
• Scale the printout so that it fits on "n" pages
• Print 2, 4, 8, or 16 pages on one sheet of paper

Comprehensive calculation capabilities

• More than 330 calculation functions
• Supports complex numbers and array functions
• Numbers can be formatted as currency values, with fixed decimal places and thousands separators, as percentages or fractions, as dates and times, etc.
• Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00) which also allows negative times
• AutoSum, AutoProduct etc. automatically evaluate the desired cell ranges
• AutoFill with smart series recognition
• External references (calculations that access data in other files)
• Formula auditing helps you find errors in your worksheets
• Password protection and encryption for sheets, workbooks, and documents

Working with sheets

• Freeze rows and columns
• Syntax highlighting
• Comments
• Input validation
• AutoCompletion for cells
• Select and format multiple sheets simultaneously

Analyzing data

• Goal seeker
• Scenarios
• Create database ranges within worksheets
• Data grouping (outliner)
• Sort and transpose
• AutoFilter and special filter
• Database functions for sum, average, variance etc.

Creating attractive worksheets

• Cell and character styles
• Transfer formatting with the format brush
• Conditional formatting
• AutoFormat: formatting with a single mouse click
• Borders, shading, fill patterns
• Rotate and merge cells
• Center across columns
• Create forms with input fields, checkboxes, dropdown lists etc.
• Headers and footers (separately for left/middle/right)

Graphics and drawing

• Comprehensive drawing and image functions: Draw and design directly in your documents, fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes.
• Mirror and glow effects, soft shadows, and transparency
• Crop pictures directly in PlanMaker
• Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside PlanMaker
• "Sticky" connector lines between objects
• Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts
• TextArt feature for amazing type effects

Present and visualize

• Create persuasive charts with built-in powerful Excel-compatible charting
• 70 different chart types
• Each chart element can be individually formatted with any kind of fill pattern, color, or gradient.
• Impressive special effects in charts: soft shadows, bevels, transparency, light sources etc.
• Free rotation of 3D charts

Extras

• Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
• PlanMaker operates as an OLE server and lets you insert its sheets and charts in any other program.
• Scriptable with BasicMaker and other programming languages
• Spell-checking in twenty, automatic hyphenation in 33 languages
• You can add arbitrary Hunspell dictionaries for spell checking.
• Free-of-charge technical support