Comments on: Quicksheet 5.0 Review

Do you eat spreadsheets for breakfast? Is you back aching from dragging a laptop around everywhere you go so you can access the data you have to have? Or even worse, do you keep having to call someone at the office to look up a simple number? Then Cutting Edge Software's Quicksheet 5.0 will free you from endless hassles and let you do your job. This is a very full-featured app that lets you take your Excel spreadsheets with you, edit them on the road, then sync them with Excel when you get back.

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MiniCalc and TinySheet?

I.M. Anonymous @ 7/26/2000 12:19:16 AM #

Any comparisons with MiniCalc and Tinysheet?
Which one is really better?

RE: MiniCalc and TinySheet?

I.M. Anonymous @ 7/26/2000 9:48:53 AM #

Can't tell for sure how objective it is, but here's MiniCalc's comparison:
http://solutionsinhand.com/UsVsThem.html" CLASS=NEWS TARGET=_NEW>http://solutionsinhand.com/UsVsThem.html

RE: MiniCalc and TinySheet?

I.M. Anonymous @ 7/26/2000 12:41:07 PM #

Comparison charts posted by a vendor are about as credible as Gore comparing his record to Bush, or vice versa. I'd look for reviews or roundups written by non-partisans. I've found those charts to be somewhat deceiving.

Quicksheet vs. TinySheet

Ed @ 10/18/2000 6:55:16 PM #

Here's a comparison between Quicksheet and TinySheet:

http://www.ugeek.com/pdageek/features/palmspreads/

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Not very useful

Kurt @ 7/26/2000 5:44:47 PM #

I tried QuickSheet 4 recently and abandoned it before the 3 day trial was even up.

1. They tout its ability to synch with Excel, but that only applies to Windows users; Mac users can't accomplish this feat.
2. QuickSheet is absolutely no Excel. If you play with Excel formulae at all, you're screwed, as QuickSheet won't touch most Excel functions.
3. This is no fault of QuickSheet's, but the Palm's screen is simply too small for spreadsheet work. What use is it to see only 4 columns by 8 rows at a time?
4. Even if you're willing to live with the tiny screen, QuickSheet does not provide an easy way to scroll around. The horiz. and vert. scroll bars aren't an adequate answer. What is needed is a grabber hand (a la Quark or PhotoShop) that lets you grab the document and slide it around. They don't provide this though.

If you're a die-hard Palmist and spreadsheet fan, by all means, go download the demo. But prepare to be disappointed.

-Kurt

RE: Not very useful

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/2/2000 9:25:35 AM #

Many criticisms Kurt has seem due to incomplete familiarity with the product or 2 minutes of surfing at the ces website. I quickly discovered that a beta Mac conduit for Excel exists (haven't used it yet, though), I discovered that upon loading the app on my Visor, a simple drag of cells across the screen will extend the selection (just like in excel on the desktop) so "grabber hands" are entirely unnecessary-- the buttons for the device can be mapped to move the field of view (address = left; Todo = right; up=up; down=down).. What could be easier?

I think Quicksheet is the furthest thing from a disappointment. This thing rocks!

RE: Not very useful

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2000 2:52:05 PM #

Im not sure what Kurt expects to do with this, but Quicksheet has been invaluable for me in doing quick calculations, carrying important spreadsheets, manipulating data,etc. Of course you cant do big spreadsheets and it is a little hard to scroll around in a large spreadsheet, but I use all the time for doing sales analyses and trends, running what if sales increase scenarios, keeping price lists with me, estimating impact of price increases, doing on the fly analyses in meetings, running home mortgage calculations while at the open house, running car payment calculations while at the dealer, tracking my financials, etc. These are all relatively small spreadsheets, but the ability to use formulae linked to variable cells makes all the difference in the world. Who wants to redo calculations by hand one at a time on the calculator? Kurt, probably expected a significantly higher level of usage/interaction. All my friends have made quicksheet part of the standard Palm software.

RE: Not very useful

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2000 2:52:05 PM #

Mac (beta) synch works for me...

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/19/2000 1:32:43 PM #

I've used the Mac (beta) synch conduit and it works OK for me...

Overall I rate this as one of the add-on apps I
use most often (with BrainForest and DateBk3/4).
(My #1 Palm add-on is Teal Lock, by the way.
That's the one thing that I recommend to everyone.)