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Native Microsoft Excel Support

Spread for Windows Forms provides the industry's best native Excel support. You can import data from and export data (and formatting) to Microsoft Excel, including XLS, XLSX, CSV, and TXT files, all without needing Excel installed on the user's machine...royalty-free and run-time free.

Data Handling

Spread provides the familiar sheets and workbooks you know from Microsoft Excel, as well as formula support, including cross-sheet references. You or your users can search, sort, filter, and group data, including providing outline grouping similar to Microsoft Excel. In addition, Spread can display data in hierarchies.

Dashboards and Camera Shape

Create impressive spreadsheet dashboard reports using camera shapes! A camera shape shows a range of cells as a static image, exactly as it appears in the original source sheet, and can be placed anywhere in the target sheet. You can lay out several ranges that contain cells of various sizes, and place them along size other content in the target sheet like charts and sparklines to summarise and analyse your data.

Data Acquisition

Spread for Windows Forms 5 works with data any way you need to provide it. You can bind to a data source or use unbound data. It can import data in many formats. And you can set up the data at run time or at design time using the convenient Quick Start wizard or in a WYSIWYG environment in the provided Spread Designer.

Chart Support

Add impressive charts to your spreadsheets using the new Chart control. Easily design charts using the included Chart Designer. Spread now support 12 chart types with 85 chart views, including 2D and 3D.

Appearance

How do you want your spreadsheet to appear today? Any way you want! Use Spread to achieve clear, colorful table layouts, custom spreadsheets, and more.

Interaction

Whether your users need to zoom, view multiple panes of data, drag-and-drop data, drag fill data in cells, or view cell notes, Spread can do it, and more. Offer users autocomplete options, undo and redo capabilities, frozen rows and columns, and different selection options, as needed.

Cell Types

Spread offers eight editable cell types and thirteen graphical cell types, which provide just about any interaction or data display you need. You can customise cells with spin buttons and provide pop-up calendars and clocks and other editors as needed.

Output

Distributing the data can be just as, if not more, important than simply displaying it. You can export the data to different file formats, including native Excel files, delimited files, PDF, and printed reports.

Designers and Wizards

Spread makes it easy to create a prototype quickly or to customise your finished designs using the built-in Designers and Wizards.

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