Reference Post Freeware Excel Compatible Spreadsheets

[socrtwo]

++Spreadsheet Parts of Office Suite++

* Budgie Office Spreadsheet -
http://web.archive.org/web/20040407062220/http://www.modesoft.com/Budgie16Setup.exe
- Cool little Office Suite.

* 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.

++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://www.byedesign.freeserve.co.uk/ - No frills but
still powerful spreadsheet that seems to include all the function Excel
has.

++Online Spreadsheets++

* 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

++Viewers++

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

* Excel Viewer -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN
- Useful freebie in a pinch.

 

[Susan Bugher]

socrtwo wrote:

Thank you - nice list.

* Spread32 - http://www.byedesign.freeserve.co.uk/ - No frills but
still powerful spreadsheet that seems to include all the function Excel
has.

Spread32 is now "honor sytem" Shareware - not Freeware ("The Shareware
version is free and not time-limited, and can be downloaded from the
table below").

There is a last Freeware version:

Program: Spread32
Author: Bye Design Ltd
Install: (n.i.)
W: LFW
Ware: (Freeware) v 1.18
http://xtort.net/freeware-collection/productivity-software.php

Susan
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[socrtwo]

Donca Susan. If anybody is aware of others please post.

 

[socrtwo]

Some more free online spreadsheets that can im port Excel data:

* 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.