Known Issues in Pocket Excel on a Handheld PC

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You may experience any of the following issues when you use Pocket Excel:

• If you select a specific range of cells rather than entire columns, rows, or worksheets in Pocket Excel, many functions, such as sorting, formatting, or filtering, can be processed faster.
• If you print a workbook in Pocket Excel and you receive an error message, you may need to close and open the workbook again before you try to print again.
• If you use the Undo command to undo a command you performed on a large number of cells, you may experience slow performance.
• If you insert, delete, or move a sheet within a workbook, any AutoFilter functionality that you set up may no longer be working.
• When you save a workbook in Pocket Excel, the AutoFilter functionality is not saved.
• When you convert a Microsoft Excel workbook to a Pocket Excel workbook, the AutoFilter functionality is not saved.
• If you created some hidden rows in a Microsoft Excel workbook using the AutoFilter feature, these rows remain hidden when you convert the workbook to a Pocket Excel workbook format.
• Fractions may not be displayed correctly in workbook cells.
• When you add a border to a cell, you cannot change that formatting using an adjacent cell.
• Pocket Excel does not support currency symbols other than the United States dollar sign ($).
• Column IV and row 16384 are the last available column and row in Pocket Excel.
• Column or row formatting may be lost when you convert a file from the Excel format to the Pocket Excel format.
• Some formatting for fonts, font colors, fills, or borders are not converted properly from Microsoft Excel 95 to Pocket Excel.
• Pocket Excel does not support hidden worksheets. When you hide a worksheet in Microsoft Excel, and then convert the worksheet to the Pocket Excel format, the worksheet does not remain hidden.
• Excel files that contain a large number of formatting features may not convert properly to the Pocket Excel format.
• Pocket Excel does not recognize the Microsoft Excel for Macintosh file format.
• Microsoft does not recommend using extended characters in passwords in Pocket Excel documents.
• Excel workbooks lose password protection when you convert them to Pocket Word documents.
• Microsoft does not recommend pasting a password into a Pocket Excel workbook.
• Pocket Excel does not recognize the Excel 97 conditional number formatting feature.
• When you convert a file from Pocket Excel to Excel format, all the Pocket Excel number formats are added as custom formats in Excel.
• When you add a custom number format, it may be displayed as unrecognized characters (blank squares).
• Pocket Excel may not recognize local defined range names in Excel workbooks.