PlanMaker 2006 rev 326

Pocket Excel is pre-installed on all Pocket PCs. A typical user expects to be able to open any spreadsheet from Microsoft Excel for Windows in Pocket Excel, work on it and save it back, with data and formatting intact.

Reality check please: Have you ever tried to open even moderately complex spreadsheets in Pocket Excel? Here is what happens:


Pocket Excel supports only a quarter of Microsoft Excels calculation functions. The rest is lost when opening a spreadsheet file.

Pocket Excel has no support for charts at all. Not only can you not view or modify charts on the road, Pocket Excel also deletes them from your .XLS files.

Pocket Excel does not provide any drawing functions, AutoShapes, cell comments, or images. These objects, you might have guessed it, are silently discarded.

We havent even started talking about password protection, conditional formatting, AutoFormat, merging cells, or data grouping yet. None of these exist in Pocket Excel.

There is a better alternative: PlanMaker for Pocket PCs, the only full-featured spreadsheet package for Pocket PCs:


More than 320 calculation functions, covering maths, financial mathematics, date and time calculations, data analysis, etc.

Supports complex numbers, matrix (array) functions, and a vast range of statistics functions

Lossless conversion (back and forth) of Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh)

Powerful charting engine that renders high-quality charts in 2D and 3D (70 different chart types)

AutoShapes-compatible drawing directly in your worksheets (drawing, designing, flow-charting, magic connectors, etc.)

AutoFormat, hierarchical cell and character styles, conditional formatting

Data grouping (outliner)

Spell-checking in 16 languages

and much more...

PlanMaker is the most powerful spreadsheet package for Pocket PCs – in fact, it is the most full-featured spreadsheet for any PDA