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Palm and Treo Hacks
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Palm and Treo Hacks

by Scott MacHaffie
October 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 45m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Get Creative with a Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is a useful tool—a hack in its own right. Spreadsheets can function as calculators, list managers, web layout tools, and more.

If you are going to make heavy use of a spreadsheet on your Palm, then it has to be easy to use. You need to be able to enter formulas and cells efficiently. Also, you need to be able to manage multiple spreadsheets and easily move between them.

There are several popular spreadsheets on the market:

Documents-to-Go

DataViz’s Documents-to-Go (http://www.dataviz.com/) is an office suite that is bundled with many Palms. It lets you edit Excel spreadsheets and convert them to a lightweight format for quick editing on the go.

QuickOffice

The QuickOffice (http://www.quickoffice.com/) suite, like Documents-to-Go, offers Excel compatibility in a compact form. QuickOffice allows you to work with native Excel spreadsheets without requiring a conduit to strip them down to a simpler format. This allows you to work with a spreadsheet on your Palm device and then beam or email it to a coworker’s desktop computer, where the spreadsheet can be opened in its full glory in Excel.

MiniCalc

MiniCalc (http://www.solutionsinhand.com) is a standard spreadsheet. It allows you to resize columns, change the formatting (both numeric and colors), and add a number of functions to your formulas, as you can see in Figure 2-17.

MiniCalc showing some of the available functions

Figure 2-17. MiniCalc ...

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