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Review on Calc XLS by Brian Page

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I'm a big fan of iWork and would prefer if it was integrated with other Apple products such as Mail.

I'm a big fan of iWork and would prefer if it was integrated with other Apple products such as Mail. It's also annoying that you cannot drag sheets from the spreadsheet and paste them into another document. This may seem minor, but it means that I cannot easily create tables from data pulled from Google Sheets or Excel. This could have been a great app had Apple taken a page out of Microsoft Word and added table creation capabilities. When exporting your work to PDF format there is no way to remove all formatting except to use the "No Formatting" option which removes everything including fonts, colors, borders etc.. In addition, when printing there is only one choice available - standard printer settings (color/mono). No color choices like black & white, grayscale, sepia, cyanogen, light gray etc.. And finally, even though you can choose between portrait and landscape orientation while editing a worksheet, once you save the sheet the layout will always revert back to being locked in portrait mode! Not exactly user friendly at all. Also there should be an easier method to add text boxes without having to select each box individually. If they used some sort of auto-fill feature similar to what Office 365 does this would make adding fields much more convenient than typing the same field over and over again.

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Pros
  • You can export your work to.docx format allowing you to easily move work to other programs such as word processor
  • Has a great calendar that is easy to add events and share
Cons
  • If you have many worksheets then you will have to wait until each is processed before you can open the next
  • You can either print full page or landscape
  • If you want to update cell A1 with new values you have to re-enter all the data in cell A