Best Business and Productivity Software for Spreadsheet

summary: this is the de facto standard for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, competently authored.

summary: if you've ever worked in any kind of office environment you're probably familiar with at least microsoft word documents, if not excel spreadsheets.

outlook - interface is a bit dated summary: if you've ever worked in any kind of office environment you're probably familiar with at least microsoft word documents, if not excel spreadsheets.

apple has not released a standalone spreadsheet since it had its claris subsidary years ago and claris resolve hit the scene (this was in 1991).

in particular, the excel plug-in allows scanning as an image only; i would really have wanted some way to scan a printed spreadsheet into excel as values.

some of the features, like scanning into spreadsheets, would frankly be quicker and easier done by hand.

scanning in normal mode, you get famine--just an image pasted into the spreadsheet.

when you scan a receipt it puts the date, total, tax and vendor into the spreadsheet.

wordperfect x3 office suite, student & teacher edition (for academic users), also includes quattro pro x3 (spreadsheet), presentations x3 (multimedia slide shows & drawing tools), paradox (database),

strengths: includes powerful word processor, spreadsheet, & presentation graphics package.

overall, i think this is an excellent purchase; for around $100 you can get the basic microsoft office tools on your computer and be functional as far as writing papers, creating spreadsheets,

strengths: excellent microsoft package; comes with word, powerpoint, excel, outlook; good for student use (presentations, papers, spreadsheets, etc.) weaknesses: doesn't have publisher or outlook

for someone who uses outlook, access and excel very heavily at work, i was having a tough time adjusting to the limitations inherent in windows mail and the database/spreadsheet programs in microsoft