SSuite Axcel Professional

Spreadsheets are the types of files dedicated to storing and working with a large amount of numbers, but it does well with generally any kind of data. As such, you might need advanced editing operations in your activities, and SSuite Axcel Professional is a powerful spreadsheet editor you want to get your hands on.

It’s installed before you realize and you can fire it up immediately. The interface is quite intuitive, with most of the space reserved for the table management, a side panel for handling worksheet, table, data, and map elements, as well as an upper toolbar where you find most of the functions you need to add and manipulate data.

First of all, file support leaves much to be desired, mostly because it’s only compatible with old XLS files and not with XLSX as well. Other supported formats include TXT, BMS, and CSV, with comma separated or value field only. The program itself saves data under the VTS format.

Cell management is done like in any spreadsheet editor. Cells can be edited on the spot, with the possibility to merge and split cells, but also to move or customize their appearance. More than this, it comes with several cell conversion options between character types like binary, decimal, octal, and hexadecimal.

In case there’s a lot of text inside the spreadsheet, you might want to rely on the spell checker to fix any potential mistakes. The worksheet can be protected with a password, but also individual cells to prevent accidental removal or editing of data.

There are a variety of drawing tools to use which function on the very top layer, not interfering with your cell data. You can easily plot data by following the steps of the Graph Wizard to pick a style and the data cells to include.

In case you want to work on an existing data set which is not on your computer it’s possible to connect to an ODBC database. Multiple formulae are available for processing categorized in financial, information, logical, reference, math and trigonometry, text, statistical, and time.

Bottom line is that SSuite Axcel Professional does offer an impressive variety of tools for spreadsheet management. Graphs can be easily built, with benefits from drawing tools and possibility to load from an ODBC data source. The only downside to the operation is the rather poor file support.