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Best app for Excel?
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TxGoat
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Sadly, the best smartphone software is going to exist on a Windows phone for any compatibility with any Office applications. That said, I've heard Documents to go isn't a bad suite, granted you have to pay to get more than just View functionality, and I've heard that it's not 100% stable. I doubt Microsoft would want it any other way considering they'd rather have software that plays nice with their own phones instead of their competitor's phones. Good luck and go look at the reviews for Documents To Go on Youtube if you'd like a better idea of what it's capable of.
robrecht
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I think the 3 best office suite options are probably Documents to Go by Data Viz ($15), Office Suite Professional by Mobisystems ($15), and Quickoffice Pro ($8). I used Documents to Go years ago on the original Palm OS but not lately. They've been around that long with a pretty good rep. Here's their complete list of Excel functions supported:
http://support.dataviz.com/support.srch?docid=14321&pid=207
If you buy directly from Data Viz they will give you a 30-day money back guarantee, as will Quickoffice Pro, which I am currently trying out now.
The main reason I decided to try out Quickoffice Pro first is that they are integrated with Dropbox. Between my work laptop, two laptops at home, and my phone, I am now experimenting with Dropbox to syncronize my files on all these different computers. I don't think Google Documents is nearly as good of a solution as Dropbox for this kind of thing and I certainly did not like the way Google Documents seemed to be converting my Excel files into nonworking fluff. Maybe there are better ways to work with Google Documents, but I did not have the patience to bother with it.
Quickoffice also advertizes that they have the most Excel functions and formulas but they might be playing a game with how they count these. I don't have a comparable list from them. So far, my rather complicated spreadsheets all seem to work just fine so I'm happy with that after the first few days. But I am not crazy about the way that cells seem to go blank and repopulate on the screen as I scroll up and down quickly. Not really a problem, but it just creates a feeling of instability that makes me nervous. It's always scary to see data disappear and reappear, lol. For all I know Data Viz does the same thing.
Maybe if you, or others, try some of the other Excel programs, we can all report back and we can make this a valuable thread for Excel geeks and wannabes.
Like robrecht I have been a Docs to Go user since the Palm days. I've used it on my iPod Touch since they beta'd it for free and my iPad lately. I also am a heavy DropBox user and Docs to Go does not play well. If you make edits, you have to save them as a new file. This destroys the usefulness of DropBox.
When I picked up the TB, it had Quickoffice installed so I played around with it and found the integration with DropBox to be perfect. You open a file, make your changes and save it. I liked the way is worked so much that I bought it for the iPad. (Big fail on PowerPoint there though, you can't edit anything created beyond the 2003 version of Office...)
If you use DropBox and were asking for the iPad I would say Quickoffice without question. I'm still feeling my way around Android so I don't know that I'm qualified to make the same recomendation. But I would
If you are not using DropBox, go with the best deal. (But you should be using DropBox!)
FWIW
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When I picked up the TB, it had Quickoffice installed so I played around with it and found the integration with DropBox to be perfect. You open a file, make your changes and save it. I liked the way is worked so much that I bought it for the iPad. (Big fail on PowerPoint there though, you can't edit anything created beyond the 2003 version of Office...)
If you use DropBox and were asking for the iPad I would say Quickoffice without question. I'm still feeling my way around Android so I don't know that I'm qualified to make the same recomendation. But I would
If you are not using DropBox, go with the best deal. (But you should be using DropBox!)
FWIW
DLM
robrecht
Android Enthusiast
So one of the things I don't like about Quickoffice Pro's version of Excel is no freeze pane. For example, if you freeze panes in a spreadsheet so that the header row will always be visible as you scroll down in a spreadsheet, this will not be carried over to the mobile version. Windows Mobile has had this for years and it is important.
A 2nd thing I do not like at all is that there is no full page viewing feature, at least not that I can find. It always seems to assume that you want to enter data and a large part of the screen at the top is devoted to this functionality. This is especially aggravating in landscape.
A 2nd thing I do not like at all is that there is no full page viewing feature, at least not that I can find. It always seems to assume that you want to enter data and a large part of the screen at the top is devoted to this functionality. This is especially aggravating in landscape.