Tuesday, April 2, 2002
SpreadCE - there is a great third party spreadsheet
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 05:20 AM
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Despite what you may have read right here at Pocket PC Thoughts, there does exist a very powerful replacement for one of the Pocket Office apps. SpreadCE makes a nice replacement for Pocket Excel if you are an Excel power user. Just a few of the things SpreadCE does that Pocket Excel cannot:
•unlimited open files
•317 worksheet functions, many of them from the desktop Excel's "Analysis Toolpak."
•49 macro functions for custom functions and commands
•array formulas
•charts (column, bar, line, pie, scatter, area)
•controls (label/group box/command button/check box/option button/list box/combobox/scrollbar/spinner)
•drawing objects (line/rectangle/oval/text box)
SpreadCE has been around since the old Palm-sized PC days before PDA's had spreadsheets and has continued to improve and add new features. It is available in a dizzying number of languages and platforms, including HPC's,the Casio BE-300 and even desktop Windows. So, if you are a spreadsheet junkie, give SpreadCE a shot. One thing I did notice is that it doesn't appear to work with Pocket Excel files. So if you want to play with it, open up a few spreadsheets in Pocket Excel and save them as Excel files, or go into ActiveSync and turn off the conversion for Excel files. UPDATE! SpreadCE does indeed work with Pocket Excel files. When you hit File|Open, the default is to only show Excel Files. Simply hit the dropdown and select Pocket Excel Files. Duh. ;-)
Now, if we could only find someone to develop that elusive word processor that will do tables, outlining, and more than one level of bulletpoints. :-)
Despite what you may have read right here at Pocket PC Thoughts, there does exist a very powerful replacement for one of the Pocket Office apps. SpreadCE makes a nice replacement for Pocket Excel if you are an Excel power user. Just a few of the things SpreadCE does that Pocket Excel cannot:
•unlimited open files
•317 worksheet functions, many of them from the desktop Excel's "Analysis Toolpak."
•49 macro functions for custom functions and commands
•array formulas
•charts (column, bar, line, pie, scatter, area)
•controls (label/group box/command button/check box/option button/list box/combobox/scrollbar/spinner)
•drawing objects (line/rectangle/oval/text box)
SpreadCE has been around since the old Palm-sized PC days before PDA's had spreadsheets and has continued to improve and add new features. It is available in a dizzying number of languages and platforms, including HPC's,the Casio BE-300 and even desktop Windows. So, if you are a spreadsheet junkie, give SpreadCE a shot. One thing I did notice is that it doesn't appear to work with Pocket Excel files. So if you want to play with it, open up a few spreadsheets in Pocket Excel and save them as Excel files, or go into ActiveSync and turn off the conversion for Excel files. UPDATE! SpreadCE does indeed work with Pocket Excel files. When you hit File|Open, the default is to only show Excel Files. Simply hit the dropdown and select Pocket Excel Files. Duh. ;-)
Now, if we could only find someone to develop that elusive word processor that will do tables, outlining, and more than one level of bulletpoints. :-)
