A lot of data can get vague very quickly. Tables helps you to organize and present data very simply, developer Daniel Schwill explains.
With Tables you can not only organise data but also calculate and compare them, too. Add, sum or multiply numbers or process data by using different functions. Data can not only represent numbers, but dates and amounts, too.
Tables offer extensive options to format the data. Format them with currency, an amount, as percentage rates, scientifically or with different dates. You can even add some photos and PDF documents to present your data with visual impact. You can also create your own custom styles to quickly assign the same formatting properties to other cells, presenting a uniform look for your document.
Tables is available as a Universal Binary application for PowerPC and Intel architectures and requires Mac OS X “Panther” version 10.3.9 and above.
More info and download link here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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Note: It’s only a 30-day trial.
apple need to release something like this. although this does look alot like the iWork apps. some hax is going on.
Hey, is it pretty cheap and does it let you calculate all de sales from your crack business without too much of a learning curve? Because then Apple should open a store in Hell’s Kitchen and also one in de Bronx.
Oh, and Greenwich. You know, for all de rich, white crackheads.
Yeh-heh-hehessssss . . . I Iove Apple. They make it so much easier to run your illegal business ventures than Microsoft.
looks very limited. A pity. At least it’s a step in the right direction. But since when does Apple do open beta?
oh damn, and I thought this was from Apple. Read that headline somewhat too fast. At least it looks very cupertino-minimalist-ish.
Heey! I’m from Greenwich.. we’re not all rich, white, crackheads 🙁
I, too, initially thought that this was an Apple offering. Went to the page to read about it and found that it wasn’t. With the rumors of Apple’s “Numbers” spreadsheet swirling about, I wonder if this was not rushed out to beat Numbers to the punch.
We have just moved 200 Macs in our school to the spreadheet “Mesa”. Excellent and just like Pages and Keynote in style.
With NeoOffice, it’s bye bye to M$ Office in our school.
Man, this sure beats the crap out of the bloated MS Excel. I mean, don;t get me wrong, I am a power Excel user but the software sure feels bloated. It takes forever to load, there’s a lot of usability issues and Tables follows the line of iWork’s interface, which is so productive. Keynote is great for eye candy charts although it doesn’t have any calculating functions so I’ve been stuck using Excel and copying the data into Keynote in order to create charts. Keynote is also taking a lot to load on my iMac G5, so I’ll be glad to get rid of Excel in favor of Tables.
Now, if Apple releases this long-rumored Numbers app, then I will feel sorry for the developer of Tables.
I have also tried NeoOffice (although not the Aqua version 2.0), and I can proclaim Tables as the winner of spreadsheet apps (so far).
When I was younger sometimes we would spread a sheet on the kitchen table …ok, it was a tablecloth. and yes, we washed it.
Poor guy. He worked so hard I bet in producing this, then Apple will introduce Numbers (or whatever) in January and blow him totally out of the water. He’s about a year late to make a bundle off this.
Until an Excel replacement has just as powerful a scripting language as Excel has, Excel will always be on top. For those of you who don’t know, Excel is actually pretty awesome. And I am NOT a Microsoft fan, but it’s true. None of these replacements offer this. And even if they did, they would not be based on Visual Basic, so will always be behind due to that (in terms of compatibility and number of people who already know the language).
But, that said, Tables, and the rumoured Numbers will, I’m sure, fit the bill for 90% of spreadsheet casual users. It looks very nice, and I wish the author success.
I can see the value, but what is it’s price?
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – ” . . . “
Racist Bast*rd! So all blacks are crack dealers are they?
And there’s Calc from Mariner Software.
Damn Tizzy, take it easy. He’s just a dog.
…And there’s Mesa from P&L Systems.
What’s wrong with Appleworks? What do people want?
If I was them, and I thought Apple would announce “Numbers” tomorrow, I would also make an announcement NOW while I can still get someone to pay attention to me.
-do they know something we don’t”
Hey TTzz, lighten up!
Get it? Lighten up?!? Come onnnn . . . it’s good. You know it is.
Oh, and by de way — No, I don’t think all blacks are crack dealers. But I think you probably are. So cut me a deal, alright? Only de pure stuff.
Yeh-heh-hehessssss . . .
I just tried Mesa, Calc, and Tables. None even compares to Excel, though I do appreciate some of Calc’s formatting features, and Mesa’s formula builder is something that the Excel team should pay attention to.
neomonkey, having looked at Mesa – thanks, Peter – I can easily reply “it doesn’t look/feel like a Mac app”. BUT, you say, it IS a Mac app!” Yes, well, it has the look and feel of a Mac app from the Last Century! It looks like it was developed for OS 9, developed before the ‘tabbed interface’ got sophisticated, developed before 3D graphics hit the desktop – because it WAS!
Now … when I need a spreadsheet, I go straight to AppleWorks. That’s what I have and it does the calculations I need with no muss, no fuss.
I think Apple is missing an opportunity here. Update AppleWorks, bring it into this century. Mostly, update the interface while making it Universal. I’m in no way talking about an Office-killer, not even a SOHO app – that’s the iWork niche – just something that will work for Mom or Pop’s “personal office”, where Mom does the household accounts, Dad designs the house extension for the new baby, Junior writes a book report for that book he was supposed to have read and Missy puts together the presentation that will be the centerpiece of her next winning Science Fair project.
The AppleWorks spreadsheet works fine for me, also, DLMeyer. Tables does not offer a “click one button” tool to calculate the sum or the mean of a column or row of numbers. In fact, the mean is not even offered in the list of functions. And building a sum definition laboriously by hand each time you want it is just not acceptable to me. For a consumer user, AppleWorks is just dandy.
And I agree that Apple ought to spiff up AppleWorks into a universal, Cocoa application. I am not impressed by iWork. I find Pages is too difficult to use. And where are the spreadsheet, drawing, and database tools that are integrated with one another, such as I find in AppleWorks?