| Feature | Description | Available for |
| Cell values | - Strings
- Numbers
- Dates
- Booleans
- Formulas
- Errors
| Professional, Reader, Writer, Express Writer |
| Formulas | - All functions supported by Excel
- Arithmetic, logical and unary operators
- Formulas with numbers, dates and strings
- Formulas with cell references
- Formulas with cell ranges
- Formulas with named ranges
- Formulas with arrays
- Formulas in A1 or R1C1 reference style
| Professional, Reader, Writer, Express Writer |
| Formula computation engine | - Formula computation engine is available
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Worksheets | - Title
- Worksheet can be selected
- Worksheet can be protected
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Format cells | - Format a cell, a row, a column or a specified range
- Number format - all text, number and date formats supported by Excel are available
- Alignment vertical & horizontal alignment, wrap & shrink text
- Font font name, font size, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript & subscript
- Border style and color
- Background & foreground
- Protection locked & hidden
- Merged cells
| Professional, Reader, Writer, Express Writer |
| Auto-formats | - Default Excel auto-formats
- Custom auto-formats
| Professional, Reader, Writer, Express Writer |
| Conditional Formatting | - Conditional formatting for a range
- Font – color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough
- Border – style and color
- Background & foreground
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Hyperlinks | - URL's
- Files
- Cell references
- Named ranges
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Comments | - Font name, font size, bold, italic
- Foreground
- Location
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Images | - JPEG images
- Image file path
- Location
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Names | | Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Data validation | - Data entered in a cell can be restricted to certain values
- Drop-down controls to select the allowable values for a cell are available
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Header & footer | - Position left, center and right side
- Font font name, font size, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript
- Predefined texts: page number, total number of pages, date and time, file name
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Page Setup | - Set page orientation (portrait, landscape), paper size
- Set scaling factor, fit to pages width/height
- Set paper margins
- Set print area
- Set rows to be repeated at top, columns to be repeated at left
- Print order
- Print gridlines, print black and white, print draft quality, print row and column headings, print comments
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Page breaks | - Horizontal and vertical page breaks
- Allows displaying the file in page break preview mode
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Row & column dimension | - Row height & column width can be set for the grid
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Charts | - All chart types and chart formats supported by Excel are available
| Professional, Reader, Writer |
| Read as SQL result set | - Read the sheet values of an Excel document
- Read the active sheet values of an Excel document
- Read the values from a TXT file
- Read the values from a CSV file
- Read the values from an XML file
| Professional, Reader |
| Save as | - XLS document
- TXT file
- CVS file
- XML file
- HTML file
| Professional, Writer, Express Writer (only XLS) |
| Load | - An XLS document
- A TXT file
- A CSV file
- An XML file
- An HTML file
| Professional, Reader |
| Import/Export | - SQL result sets
- XML files
- TXT files
- CSV files
- HTML files
- Custom lists
| Professional, Reader (only export), Writer (only import), Express Writer (only SQL and custom lists) |
