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PlanMaker 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD – Calculate. Visualize. Present.

     

PlanMaker 2006

SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux or
SoftMaker Office 2006 for FreeBSD

US$ 69,95

European customers: € 69.95

Upgrade from SoftMaker Office 2004:

  

$ 34.95
European
customers: € 34.95

Upgrade from older
versions of SoftMaker Office, TextMaker, PlanMaker:

  

$ 49.95
European
customers: € 49.95

Prices include VAT for European customers

Everybody has to calculate things every day: Check bank or tax statements, do budgeting or sales forecasts, create comprehensive financial models, compare mortgage offers for that great house you've set your sight on...

PlanMaker 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD, the efficient Excel-compatible spreadsheet in SoftMaker Office 2006, does all of the above with ease.

 

Calculate.

More than 320 calculation functions are built in. They cover date and time calculations, mathematics, statistics, financial maths, numeric conversions, and data analysis. But PlanMaker does not stop there: It not only solves financial equations but also excels at higher maths, has a comprehensive set of statistics functions, works with complex numbers, and offers the full range of array functions.

PlanMaker is not limited to two dimensions: Create up to 256 sheets per file and do three-dimensional calculations. You can easily reference cells in that vast amount of data by creating named ranges and then accessing these ranges by their name.

Within worksheets, you can combine data into data ranges and analyze them through statistical functions. Furthermore, you can sort and transpose database ranges or select them by criteria via AutoFilter and other filters. Data grouping hides single values or intermediate results – similar to the outliner of a word processor –, giving you a quick view at the results of your calculations.

 

Visualize.

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AutoShapes,
flowcharts,
fills, gradients
and much more

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Flowcharts and
org charts made easy

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Creating complex calculations is only one part of the equation. If you want to persuade your audience, you should make sure to create visually pleasing worksheets that help you state your point.

PlanMaker has comprehensive formatting features: Cells can be shaded in many different styles and have any kind of borders. Multiple cells can be merged horizontally and vertically, and the contents of cells are easily rotated. Conditional formatting changes the layout of cells depending on their contents, and the AutoFormat command creates attractive layouts for your worksheets at the press of a key.

Repeating format styles can be saved as stylesheets and later recalled through a simple menu choice.

PlanMaker supports drawing right on the worksheet: A complete AutoShapes drawing module is built into PlanMaker, and our vast symbols library complements it. This means that you can not only create simple geometric shapes, but also intricate flowcharts and org charts – sticky connectors included!

Freehand drawing is possible just as well: Create a sketch like in a graphics program. Also, every one of these shapes (be they shapes, drawings, or even text art) can be filled with colors, linear and radial gradients, bitmap patterns, etc.

 

Present.

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Some sample charts
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Charting turns numbers into pictures. Great charting convinces your audience. PlanMaker's charting engine helps you create great charts with ease. Choose from any of the 70 different types of 2D and 3D charts PlanMaker supports – in fact, any chart that can be displayed by Microsoft Excel can also be created, edited, and displayed by PlanMaker.

Even stock chart types like bar or column charts can be spiffed up with color gradients, freely rotated in three-dimensional space, or adorned with background pictures or patterns. Pie charts support tearing out slices and combining slices and creating sub-charts from them. Surface, bubble, or pyramidal charts? PlanMaker is up to the task! Trend lines? No problem for PlanMaker!

 

Authentic Conversion of Microsoft Excel Files

PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft Excel users.

We have spent a huge amount of time perfecting our Excel filter. The result is a filter so accurate that you can even set PlanMaker's default saving format to "Microsoft Excel".

 

Features

Easy data exchange

Direct document exchange with PlanMaker 2006 for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE

Seamless document exchange with Microsoft Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, Excel XP, and Excel 2003 as well as Microsoft Excel for Apple Macintosh

Visual Basic macros in Excel worksheets are preserved.

Read and write of password protected Excel files

Import and export dBASE databases and other formats

Comprehensive calculations

More than 320 calculation functions

Supports complex numbers and array functions

Up to 16384 rows, 256 columns and 256 worksheets per document

Numbers can be formatted as currency, with fixed decimal places, thousands separators, as percentage values, as fractions, as dates and times, etc.

NEW: Improved international currency support

Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00), negative times possible

Goal seeker (solver)

Syntax highlighting

Freeze rows and columns

AutoFill with smart series recognition

Named ranges

Cell comments with arbitrary text formatting

NEW: Easy-access Goto button

NEW: Quickly select cell ranges from dialogs

Cell and sheet protection against accidental or deliberate modification etc.

Read and write protection for documents, encryption

Nearly unlimited Undo/Redo

NEW: Create forms with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc.

NEW: Input validation

 

  

Sheet creation

Cell and character style sheets

Transfer formatting with the format brush

AutoFormat: Formatting with a mouse click

Conditional formatting

Cell rotation and merging

Cell borders, shades, fill patterns

Centering across columns

Footers and headers (NEW: separately for left/middle/right)

Graphics and drawings

Comprehensive drawing and graphic functions integrated: drawing directly in the work sheet

Insert pictures in all common formats, freehand drawings, rectangles, circles etc.

All drawings fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes

Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside PlanMaker

Drawings can be filled with colors, patterns, bitmaps, and color gradients

Arrange, flip, mirror objects

"Sticky" connector lines between objects

Comprehensive symbol library for flow charts and org charts

Create font effects with the TextArt module

Present and visualize

Powerful charting module lets you create persuading charts

70 different chart types (2D and 3D)

Import and export charts 1:1 from and to Microsoft Excel

Free rotation and distortion of 3D charts

Each chart element can be individually formatted with any kind of filling pattern, color, or gradient

Apply any font type and style to each chart labeling

  

Unicode support

NEW: PlanMaker 2006 is now Unicode-enabled. It can be used for creating worksheets in all Western, Central European and Baltic languages, Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

NEW: The Insert > Symbol dialog gives you access to the full Unicode character set.

Data analysis

Create database ranges within worksheets

Data grouping (outliner)

Sort, filter by condition, AutoFilter

Database functions for sum, average, variance etc.

Extras

Spell-checking in 17 languages

NEW: Hyphenation in 33 languages

NEW: Menus and dialogs can be shown in 9 languages (switchable on-the-fly)

Detailed English manual (590 pages in PDF format). Download

Free support (by phone, postal mail, e-mail, web forum)

System requirements

Linux: Any Linux for PCs with glibc 2.2.5 or higher, X Window system with any Window Manager

FreeBSD: FreeBSD 5.2 or higher, X Window system with any Window Manager

Memory (RAM): 32 MByte

 

 © 2006 SoftMaker Software GmbH

     

Pricing includes VAT for customers inside the EU. Add shipping & handling.