[imdakine1]

Has anyone tried GridMagic CE?

I don't do much Excel work, especially on my handheld device etc... However, having a general Excel program for corporate expenses sheets would be great.

I am new to the BlackBerry World and heard that the 4.5 OS will have Data Viz "Docs to Go" etc...

Since I am new, I don't want to mess with upgrading yet etc... However, if I did upgrade to 4.5, will it include the free Data Viz "Docs to Go" application or not??

[amazinglygraceless]

Grid Magic work quite well for small spreadsheets. I find
it is a pain for large ones or ones with heavy formatting.

On my Pearl I have 4.5.0.52. It only has Word to Go and
SlideShow to Go (Powerpoint). Maybe the other versions are
different

You can try the premium features, but again I am not sure
how long that trial lasts.

[imdakine1]

Thanks.. I'm assuming you upgrade your Pearl to 4.5.0.52? If so, after you uploaded it can with the Word to Go and Slide Show to Go??? I could have sworn I read that the 4.5 OS would provide the Docs to Go for free thus taking the BlackBerry a step beyond reading only and now including the ability to edit etc...

[amazinglygraceless]

W2Go and S2Go are part of the D2Go package. There
is no editing in the basic package, that is one of the premium
features, along with Sheets to Go (Excel)

[bmcclure937]

Like AG has stated... the Docs2Go with OS 4.5 is not the full "premium" version!!

It has Word2Go and Slides2Go... but nothing for Excel

I honestly would not wanna look at a spread sheet on my Berry, yikes

But for some people it may be necessary!

[amazinglygraceless]

I honestly would not wanna look at a spread sheet on my Berry, yikes

But for some people it may be necessary!

Agreed! Like I said that one page simple s/sheet fine.
But for hahas I tried looking at the draft of our budget
and wanted to jump off a bridge after about 5 minutes.

Just not very practical.

[prophecyny7]

I use gridmagic (free community addition)for a 1 page spread sheet of my monthly expenses and it does the trick. But like AG said it will be a pain if you are using more than a sheet or if that sheet uses a lot of cells. Gridmagic does offer another addition that cost a fee that allows you to freeze panes which might make the bigger sheets a little easier to navigate.

[imdakine1]

I would only be using it for monthly expenses. I noticed that it might not be free anymore?

[prophecyny7]

Didnt hear about the community addition not being free any longer but I have had mine a couple of months and when I upgrade to a new OS I always have to convert to the community addition and it hasnt given me a problem.

[Pete6]

If you register DocsToGo and take the free upgrade then you get Excel and editing. I just tried it on my 8100 and was able to edit an existing sheet.

This is the version that is mostly distributed with Palm and WinMo devices.