SoftMaker Office for Windows Mobile: Feature Comparison
See how PlanMaker 2008 for Windows Mobile fares against the competition:
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PlanMaker 2008 for Pocket PCs |
Excel Mobile |
PTab |
SpreadCE |
Documents To Go |
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Manufacturer |
SoftMaker |
Microsoft |
Z4Soft |
Bye Design |
DataViz |
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Available for |
Windows Mobile Pocket PCs, Windows CE, 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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326 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
6 types |
7 |
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– Column charts |
6 types |
1 type |
1 type |
1 type |
6 types |
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– Bar charts |
6 types |
1 type |
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1 type |
6 types |
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– Line charts |
7 types |
1 type |
2 types |
1 type |
2 types |
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– Area charts |
6 types |
1 type |
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1 type |
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– XY scatter charts |
5 types |
1 type |
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 |
1 type |
1 type |
1 type |
2 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 |
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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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AutoFilter |
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Outliner for grouping data |
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Miscellaneous |
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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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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 |
