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Softalk has announced its aptly named “Spreadsheet” application for iPhone, available immediately from the App Store for a mere $7.99 (compared with $110 for a desktop version of Excel). Featuring a standard table layout with a formula bar on top, Spreadsheet allows you to format cells with everything from text and background colors to row/column size and in-cell text alignment. Cells can also be formatted to reflect the type of data they contain, with seven choices: general, number, currency, percentage, date, time or text. Spreadsheet also features in-app copy and paste functionality, allowing cells (or ranges of cells) to be copied and pasted within a worksheet. Sadly, this functionality does not extend to the entire iPhone interface.
Spreadsheet users can also take heart in the included set of over 50 functions, organized into Date/Time, General, Math, Statistical, String, and Trigonometric categories. A select listing of functions includes:
A major impediment to the development of useful office apps for the iPhone is the underlying storage model; there is no proper filesystem for applications. All data created/stored by an application is done within the application itself, rather than in a separate file (in this case, a .xls workbook somewhere). This lack of file formats makes it difficult to share documents between a desktop computer app and the corresponding iPhone app. Softalk has neatly gotten around this limitation by providing the ability to e-mail a Spreadsheet document as an attachment, openable in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or later. No word yet on when Microsoft will counter with their own version of Office apps for iPhone.
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