Excel wanted

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Most people won't use webware when they can install a program on their
computer and not have to be online to use it. Besides, using web
services only pushes things another step in the direction of renting
software. To make matters worse, eventually, all web services will have
advertising on their sites.

When it comes to office and other fundamental type applications, screw
webware.

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I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
Fred said:
Is there a program similar/compatabile with excel, to create and view
spreadsheets?
TIA
Click to expand...

Spreadsheet snowstorm:

++Stand Alone Freeware++

* Abykus - http://www.abykus.com/ - Impressive freeware.

* cVue - http://www.tucows.com/preview/395926 - Also impressive beta.
Maker has put download availability on hold. Beta is still available
of Tucows.

* Kyplot 2.0 Beta - http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/kyplot.html -
Spreadsheet ++, has extensive statistics, wave and mathematical
function analysis abilities.

* Sphygmic Software Spreadsheet -
http://www.ds.unifi.it/stefanin/AGR_2001/SH/sssheet.htm - Simple
spreadsheet. Can only open Excel 4.0 files.

* Spread32 -
http://xtort.net/freeware-collection/productivity-software.php - No
frills but still powerful spreadsheet that seems to include all the
function Excel has.

++Spreadsheet Parts of Office Suite++

* Budgie Office Spreadsheet - Cool little Office Suite. Write me for
the file ([email protected])

* EasyOffice EasySpreadsheet -
http://www.download.com/3000-2079-10058181.html?legacy=cnet - Excel
compatibility is not impressive.

* Gnumeric - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/downloads.shtml -
impressive newcomer to Windows. A strong contender to OO Calc below.

* OpenOffice Calc - http://www.openoffice.org/ - The strongest freeware
spreadsheet. (http://www.neooffice.org/ - for Mac version)

++Online Spreadsheets (pokey but convenient - some information gathered
from http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/SpdSheet/)++

* Thinkfree Online Spreadsheet - http://online.thinkfree.com/ - Very
impressive Beta spreadsheet. Uses Java. May be the English online
version of spreadsheet from the Korean office suite HaanSoft Office.

* Google Spreadsheet Preview -
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html - no frills. Many
functions but critical opinion is unimpressed at least at this point,
but heh, it's free.

* gOffice spreadsheet - gOffice : Spreadsheets Online -
http://www.goffice.com/. Nice online office concept.

* Zoho Sheet - http://www.zohosheet.com/home.do -"Zoho Sheet is a web
based alternative to traditional spreadsheet applications, like MS
Excel or Openoffice Calc, providing basic spreadsheet functionalities
coupled with web based features like sharing, tagging, publishing and
more."

* irows - http://www.irows.com/xo/Welcome.do - Looks good but seems to
be Google ad supported. Excel import worked OK, but some sheets of
workbook did not import and some did. You can make your spreadsheet
viewable by anybody and they give you code for referencing it in a Web
page or blog.

* num sum - http://numsum.com/ - allows the import of Excel based web
saved spreadsheets. I couldn't get it to import mine though. It looks
like they allow sharing to the whole Web. Nice concept, sort of like
Google Base.

* jotspot tracker - http://tracker.jot.com/ - nicely imported some
Excel cells, no direct import. You can make 2 spreadsheets for free
and share them with 5 people.

* Numbler - http://numbler.com/ - cool but no easy function entry,
which may be common to online spreadsheets.

* ajaxXLS web-based editor - http://www.ajaxxls.com/ - "ajaxXLS has
been designed to look like Microsoft Excel, making it easy for anyone
to start using it without needing to learn a new program. ajaxXLS is
platform independent and can be used with any operating system or
device that runs a Firefox web browser."

* wikicalc - http://www.softwaregarden.com/wkcalpha/ - I couldnn't get
this to install and am sort of ignorant about what a wiki is Z(although
I've contributed to wikis before). I'm not sure if this would be
considered "online" or not.

++Viewers++

* Columbus Viewer - http://www.oasys-software.com/products/dm/columbus/
- Wow, what a free program. Open 100's of file formats.

* ajaxXLS Viewer - http://www.ajaxxls.com/ - "ajaxXLS Viewer is a
web-based spreadsheet viewer that allows you to easily open any .xls
file within your Firefox browser. Compatibility with Microsoft Excel
and OpenOffice allows ajaxXLS to preserve all your common cell
formatting categories such as text styles, decimals, currencies, dates,
and times as well as formulas, backgrounds and borders from the
original documents."

* Excel Viewer -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN
- Useful freebie in a pinch.
 
By the Budgie is still here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040407062220/http://www.modesoft.com/Budgie16Setup.exe.

Also sorry for the long repetitive post, I elaborated a litle on my
last similar one. Also I don't like quoting previous posts because I
think the links look repulsive...but I guess I'll get over it and
conform from now on.

By the way, how do I create a link to a previous post in Google Groups,
do I just paste in the link and let Google figure it out?
 
socrtwo said:
By the Budgie is still here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040407062220/http://www.modesoft.com/Budgie16Setup.exe.
Click to expand...

another link. . .

The Tucow's web page is gone but you can still DL the app here:
http://tucows.dds.nl/files4/Budgie16Setup.exe

Susan
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another link. . .

The Tucow's web page is gone but you can still DL the app here:
http://tucows.dds.nl/files4/Budgie16Setup.exe
Click to expand...

and another. . . ;)

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/business/Budgie.html
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/business/files/Budgie16.zip

Susan
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