XESS 5.0 Spreadsheet New Features

XESS 5.0 Spreadsheets
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XESS 5.0 also maintains its proven record for quality, reliability, performance, and efficiency. With all its power, XESS 5.0 requires under 5MB of memory on most systems and under 10MB of disk.

It is easy to see why XESS consistently receives the highest ratings from reviewers and users.

• New, improved look-and-feel
  • Many aesthetic improvements affecting fonts, spacing, colors, and taking less space within the window for menus, etc.
  • New toolbar design with more, smaller icons, and optional animation
  • Reset button added to many dialogs

• Improved Help system
  • Improved viewer
  • Tree-structured list of topics
  • Keyword search

• New, convenient interface to set personal preferences
  • Allows tailoring many items on a per-user vs. workbook basis (e.g scrolling rate, use of @ before functions). These preferences are saved in a user file.
  • Cursor types
  • Template files define defaults for new workbooks

• Additional Options and Settings
  • More control over use of 2-digit and 4-digit year formats
  • Support for years from 100 to 3999
  • Many items previously controlled by resources now accessed with dialogs
  • User-defined cell formats

• Enhanced File Support
  • Open Excel 97/2000 workbooks directly
  • Auto detect workbook type on Open
  • Import and export HTML files
  • Maintains recent-file history
  • Improved printing support
  • "Smart" input conversion of values in text files
  • More actions controlled by Import/Export Options dialog
  • User specified headers and footers
  • Print cell notes

• Multiple Active Workbooks
  • Simultaneous multiple workbooks in same instance of XESS with dynamic recalculation of cross-sheet references
  • Generalized multi-worksheet and multi-workbook references including references to values and ranges in Excel and Lotus workbooks

• Additional image types - PBM, PNG, JPG

• Additonal Data Manipulation Features
  • Cut, Copy, and Paste using Clipboard
  • Copy and Move Transpose of cells
  • Insert/delete cells by row or column with adjustment of cells to the right or below
  • "Repeat" menu item

• Tools
  • Data Fill for extending patterns of values over a range (e.g., 1,3,5 would extend as 7,9,11,... and Jan,Mar,May would extend as Jul,Sep,Nov,...)
  • Multi-variable, multi-constraint Solver
  • Workbook statistics dialog showing memory usage by cell type.
  • Sort, Solver, Extract, and Goal Seek settings saved with workbook.

• Calculations
  • Many additional @ function enhance compatibility with other products
  • Functions for complex arithmetic
  • Over 350 functions in all
  • Array-valued functions, array constants, and array intermediate values
  • User-defined cell formats

• Improved support for localization and internationalization

• Many performance enhancements and bug fixes

• Connections API Software Developers Kit updated to support XESS 5.0 features

• xsBasic updated to support XESS 5.0 features