SoftMaker Office: The Only Desktop-Class Office Suite for Your Pocket PC

In an ideal world, you could create Microsoft Word and Excel documents on your desktop computer, put them on your Pocket PC, edit and format them on the road, and then send them back to the office in their original file formats, with content and all formatting still intact.

This is what Pocket PC users expect from their mobile computers.

Unfortunately, this is not how it works right now. Pocket Word, the "word processor" shipping with all Pocket PCs, is perhaps the biggest disappointment for mobile users: No headers or footers. No tables. No outliner. No on-the-fly spell-checking. Severely limited text formatting. Image support? Barely existent.

Pocket Excel, the miniature spreadsheet coming with your Pocket PC doesn't fare much better. It supports only a third of Excel's mathematical functions, cannot display even a simple pie chart, and doesn't handle most of Excel's capabilities.

What about document conversion then? As soon as you move a Word or Excel file to your mobile device, all features that Pocket Word and Pocket Excel cannot process are stripped and thrown away. Basically, just the bold and italic formatting and the simplest of Excel formulas survive, but not much else.

Now there is an alternative: SoftMaker Office for Pocket PCs – the first and only complete office suite for Pocket PCs.

Imagine that: A desktop-class office suite right on your Pocket PC – with lossless conversion of Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) files!

What The Media Says About TextMaker and PlanMaker, the two applications in SoftMaker Office

• infosync.no: "TextMaker is a true wonder of a program. In sheer power alone it happily leaves its rivals in the dust: in fact, I’d go so far as to say that this is the most important PPC program now available for almost any mobile professional."

• Brighthand.com: "Leaves Pocket Word in the dust"

• PPCW.net: "It’s amazing, really amazing and I’m completely amazed."

• Palmtop User Magazine: "PlanMaker is exactly what power users have been waiting for, and, for those who rely heavily on their spreadsheets, may even be enough to make them switch platforms from Palm OS or Symbian devices, where such spreadsheeting power simply doesn't exist."

• PocketNow.com: "If you do serious number crunching and would like to take it with you, then PlanMaker is a must-buy."

Features of TextMaker (the word processor)

Compatibility

• Reads and writes numerous file formats – TextMaker for Windows, Word for Windows 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003, HTML, RTF, Pocket Word, ASCII, Unicode

• Direct document exchange with Microsoft Word – no conversion required, no loss of formatting

Editing Text

• Outliner

• Tables

• Sort and calculate in text and tables

• Insert bookmarks and fields like date, time, page number, etc.

• Unlimited undo/redo

• SmartText: just type "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)

• Create forms including text fields, checkboxes, and lists

Formatting Text

• All character and paragraph formatting capabilities

• Automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control

• Headers and footers, master pages

• Character and paragraph stylesheets

Using Images and Drawings

• Insert drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.) and images in numerous formats

• Text, tables, images etc. can be placed in "frames" – the surrounding body text is automatically wrapped around them

Additional Features

• On-the-fly spell-checking in 17 languages

• 10-language thesaurus

• Tables of contents and indexes

• Footnotes and endnotes

• Password protection for documents

Features of PlanMaker (the spreadsheet)

Compatibility

• Reads and writes numerous file formats – PlanMaker for Windows, Excel for Windows 5.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003, ASCII, dBASE etc.

• Direct document exchange with Microsoft Excel – no conversion required, no loss of formatting

• Reads and writes password-protected Excel files

Comprehensive Calculation Features

• More than 320 calculation functions

• Complex numbers and array functions

• 16384 rows, 256 columns, and 256 sheets per document

• Goal seeker

• Freeze rows and columns

• AutoFill, AutoFormat, conditional formatting, cell comments, named ranges

• Cell, sheet, and workbook protection, document encryption

• Merge and rotate cells

• Cell and character stylesheets

Charts, Images, Drawings

• Fully Microsoft Excel-compatible charting module that turns data into persuasive charts

• 70 different chart types (2D and 3D)

• Charts can be imported and exported reliably from/to Microsoft Excel

• Insert images in 16 graphics formats

• Complete drawing layer built-in: Draw and design directly on top of your worksheets

• Freehand drawing, edit single Bézier points of curves

• "Sticky" connector lines between objects

• Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts

• All drawings fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes

Extras

• 16-language spell-checking and hyphenation

• Comes with user interfaces in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German