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PlanMaker 2008 for Windows – Calculate. Visualize. Present.

Everybody has to calculate things every day: check bank or tax statements, do budgeting or sales forecasts, create comprehensive financial models, compare mortgage offers for that great house you've set your sight on...

PlanMaker 2008, the efficient Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet in SoftMaker Office 2008, does all of the above with ease.

 

Calculate.

More than 330 calculation functions are built in. They cover date and time calculations, mathematics, statistics, financial maths, numeric conversions, and data analysis. But PlanMaker does not stop there: It not only solves financial equations, but also excels at higher math, has a comprehensive set of statistics functions, works with complex numbers, and offers a wide range of array functions.

PlanMaker is not limited to two dimensions: Create up to 256 sheets per file and do three-dimensional calculations. You can easily reference cells in that vast amount of data by creating named ranges and then accessing these ranges by their name.

Within worksheets, you can combine data into data ranges and analyze them through statistical functions. Furthermore, you can sort and transpose database ranges or select them by criteria via AutoFilter and special filter.

Data grouping hides single values or intermediate results – similar to the outliner of a word processor – giving you a quick view of the results of your calculations.

 

Visualize.

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AutoShapes,
flowcharts,
fills, gradients
and much more

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Flowcharts and
org charts made easy

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Creating complex calculations is only one part of the equation. If you want to persuade your audience, you should make sure to create visually pleasing worksheets that help you state your point.

PlanMaker has comprehensive formatting features: Cells can be shaded in many different styles and have any kind of border. Multiple cells can be merged horizontally and vertically, and the contents of cells are easily rotated. Conditional formatting changes the layout of cells depending on their contents, and the AutoFormat command creates attractive layouts for your worksheets at the press of a key.

Repeating format styles can be saved as cell or character stylesheets and later recalled through a simple menu choice.

     

PlanMaker for Windows

SoftMaker Office 2008 for Windows

EUR 69.95

Customers in the U.S. and Canada: US$ 79.95

Upgrade from older
versions of SoftMaker Office, TextMaker, PlanMaker:

  

€ 34.95
U.S. and Canadian customers: US$ 39.95

 

Some outstanding PlanMaker features

Can be installed on USB sticks

The only spreadsheet that reads and writes every Excel chart with full fidelity

All AutoShapes and TextArt 100% compatible with Microsoft Excel

Many advanced features for number crunchers: array calculations, complex numbers support, advanced filtering, and more

Syntax highlighting for quickly tracking down errors in your sheet

Structure data with the built-in data outliner tool

Create PDF files directly from the application

Calculate with perpetual times, including negative times – ideal for time recording

Menus and dialogs in 14 languages (switchable on-the-fly)

PlanMaker supports drawing right on the worksheet: A complete AutoShapes drawing module is built into PlanMaker, and our vast symbols library complements it. This means that you can not only create simple geometric shapes, but also intricate flowcharts and org charts – sticky connectors included!

Freehand drawing is possible just as well: Create a sketch like in a graphics program. Also, every one of these shapes (be they figures, drawings, or even text art) can be filled with colors, linear and radial gradients, bitmap patterns, etc.

 

Present.

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Some sample charts
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Charting turns numbers into pictures. Great charting convinces your audience. PlanMaker's charting engine helps you create great charts with ease. Choose from any of the 70 different types of 2D and 3D charts PlanMaker supports – in fact, any chart that can be displayed by Microsoft Excel can also be created, edited, and displayed by PlanMaker.

Even stock chart types like bar or column charts can be spiffed up with color gradients, freely rotated in three-dimensional space, or adorned with background pictures or patterns. Pie charts support tearing out slices and combining slices and creating sub-charts from them. Surface, bubble, or pyramidal charts? PlanMaker is up to the task! Trend lines? No problem for PlanMaker!

 

Authentic conversions of Microsoft Excel files

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PlanMaker displays every Excel chart type
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PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft Excel users.

To ensure flawless data exchange with all Excel users, we have invested much development effort and time into our Excel filter. The result is a filter so accurate that you can even set PlanMaker's default saving format to "Microsoft Excel".

 

 

NEW: Macro programming with PlanMaker

With the supplied scripting tool BasicMaker you can write macros for TextMaker and PlanMaker in VBA ("Visual Basic for Applications") style. This lets you automate recurring tasks and add new capabilities to the applications.

You are not limited to using BasicMaker for automating SoftMaker Office: Create scripts in any programming language that supports OLE automation – for example, Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, C++, Perl, Python, or Java.

 

Free trial software download

You can download a free trial version of SoftMaker Office 2008 for Windows here.

 

Features

Easy data exchange

Lossless document exchange with PlanMaker 2008, 2006, and 2004 for Linux, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE

Seamless document exchange with Microsoft Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, Excel XP, and Excel 2003 as well as Microsoft Excel for Apple Macintosh

Visual Basic macros in Excel worksheets are preserved.

Read and write password protected Excel files

Import and export dBASE databases and other formats

NEW: PlanMaker works as an OLE server and lets you insert its tables and charts in any other program.

NEW: Create PDF files directly from PlanMaker

NEW: Scale the printout so that it fits on "n" pages

NEW: Print 2, 4, 8, or 16 pages on one sheet of paper

Comprehensive calculations

More than 330 calculation functions

Supports complex numbers and array functions

Numbers can be formatted as currency, with fixed decimal places, thousands separators, as percentage values, as fractions, as dates and times, etc.

International currency support

Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00), negative times possible

Goal seeker (solver)

NEW: AutoSum, AutoProduct etc. automatically find the desired cell ranges

Syntax highlighting

Freeze rows and columns

AutoFill with smart series recognition

Named ranges

Cell comments with arbitrary text formatting

Quickly select cell ranges from dialogs

Cell and sheet protection against accidental or deliberate modification etc.

Read and write protection for documents, encryption

  

Creating and editing sheets

NEW: QuickInfos when editing formulas

Cell and character style sheets

Transfer formatting with the format brush

AutoFormat: Formatting with a mouse click

Conditional formatting

Cell rotation and merging

Cell borders, shades, fill patterns

Center across columns

Input validation

Create forms with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc.

Footers and headers (separately for left/middle/right)

Graphics and drawings

Comprehensive drawing and graphic functions integrated: draw directly in the worksheet

Insert pictures in all common formats, freehand drawings, rectangles, circles etc.

All drawings fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes

Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside PlanMaker

Drawings can be filled with colors, patterns, bitmaps, and color gradients

Arrange, flip, mirror objects

"Sticky" connector lines between objects

Comprehensive symbol library for flow charts and org charts

Create font effects with the TextArt module

Present and visualize

Powerful charting module lets you create persuading charts

70 different chart types (2D and 3D)

Import and export charts 1:1 from and to Microsoft Excel

Free rotation and distortion of 3D charts

Each chart element can be individually formatted with any kind of filling pattern, color, or gradient

Apply any font type and style to each chart labeling

  

Data analysis

Create database ranges within worksheets

Data grouping (outliner)

Sort and transpose

Filter by condition, AutoFilter, Special filter

Database functions for sum, average, variance etc.

Extras

Fully Unicode-enabled

NEW: Fullscreen mode hides all menus and toolbars

Spell-checking in 17 languages

Hyphenation in 33 languages

NEW: Scriptable with BasicMaker and any programming languages that support OLE Automation

NEW: Menus and dialogs can be shown in 14 languages (switchable on-the-fly)

Detailed English manual (590 pages in PDF format). Download

Free support (by phone, postal mail, e-mail, web forum)

System requirements

Windows Vista, XP, or 2000

 

 

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