XQuad

Environment

• 100% Unix native
• Supported by most Unix platforms: AIX, DIGITAL-UNIX, DG/UX, FREEBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, LINUX, LINUX SPARC, MIPS, NETBSD, OSF/1, SCO, SOLARIS PC, SOLARIS SPARC, SUNOS, UNIXWARE, ...
• X11 / Motif Graphical User Interface, available in English, French, German or Spanish.
• Adjustable interface
• International character support (ISO Latin-1)
• Type 1 PostScript® Fonts
• WYSIWYG display
• Multiple spreadsheets can be active simultaneously
• Up to 702 columns and 100,000 rows
• Online documentation
• Workstation or Floating license management

User Interface

• Mouse and keyboard shortcuts
• Pulldown menus
• Formula bar with cell coordinate display
• Thematic toolbars dynamically displayed
• Adjustable document windows
• Cut - Copy - Paste
• Drag & Drop
• Trash (to remove an object, drag and drop it into the trash)
• Selective deletion
• Dynamic information bar (describes commands and tools)
• Constant contextual access to on-line help using any HTML browser (XMayday or other)

Data Entry and Calculations

• 20 significant digits
• Automatic generation of arithmetic and geometric series (automatic determination of probable outcomes)
• Right and down automatic cell duplication
• Insertion / Deletion of rows and columns
• Data formats: pre-defined or personalized formats (precision, units, fractions, exponents, dates, times, Boolean, percentages, ...)

Display

• Zoom from 50 to 400%
• Available for monochrome, 8, 15, 16, 24 bit X servers
• Color definition according to modes: RGB, CMYK (with black optimization), HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) and grayscale
• Customizable color palette (16 million colors possible)
• Adjustable row and column size
• Best fit row and column size
• Many integrated scalable PostScript® screen fonts
• Display / Hide: grid, frame borders, information bar, row and column headers, formulas, ...
• Worksheets displayed in tile or cascade style
• Multiple discontinuous selection capabilities
• Magnetism aligns objects to cell borders

Calculation Functions

• More than 100 functions
• Mathematical
• Statistical
• Financial
• Date / time
• Character string manipulations
• Logical
• Cell addressing
• Relative or absolute calculations
• Function pasting capabilities

Document Formatting

• Border, text and background colors
• Background patterns
• Text orientation: horizontal and vertical
• Horizontal text alignments (centered, left, right, justified)
• Vertical text alignments (centered, top, bottom, justified)
• Text overflow into adjacent empty cells (horizontally and vertically)
• Multiple-line text display within a single cell
• Many typographic styles: bold, italic, underlined, strike-through, shadowed, small caps, factors, exponents, ...

Importing Data

• Text mode formats (separators configuration, UNIX code, DOS or Macintosh)
• Excel

Exporting Data

• Adobe Illustrator® (AI), Xclamation, ...
• Text (formatted, CSV, ...)
• HTML

Graphs and Charts

• Assistant for chart and graph creation
• Histograms, bar graphs, area graphs, curve graphs, pie graphs, radar, ...
• Infinite number of possible display planes
• Selection of an object's display plane (move up/ push back)
• Legends, titles, axis lines, abscises text, series name, ...
• Adjustable presentation parameters
• Able to hide graphs and charts backgrounds on worksheets or colored backgrounds
• Framing
• Multiple graphs or charts may be displayed simultaneously
• Automatic updating of graphs and charts based on the worksheet

Printing

• PostScript® printing
• Printer selection
• Choice of number of copies
• Choice of page formats (standard or personalized formats)
• Portrait or landscape orientation
• Margin definition
• Vertical or horizontal centering
• Optional printing of grid and row / column headers
• Reduction (percentage value or number of pages)
• Printing from left to right or from top to bottom
• Print a selection
• Print to a file