When you rearrange the list, the old layout slides away to the left, with the new list taking its place. I think it's a smaller leap for QO to make their spreadsheet engine more robust and capable (they should be doing that anyway) than it is for D2G to admit they're wrong (in my opinion) and make a fundamental change in their UI philosophy which would be a disruptive change for their users so I suspect that it is QO that has the better chance of evolving to be the best of both worlds.įinal soundbite on my view on the spreadsheets right now - it's a draw, no clear winner.Whether or not they're starred (i.e., favorited).
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On balance I think I'm going to carry on with D2G but keep QO installed so that I get update notifications and, once it's matured a bit, I can definitely see myself moving because of the UI. my QO formatting issues that just worked with D2G). The above are my very first impressions and I'm really torn because (apart from the sheet/tabs issue) the QO UI is much nicer, to the extent that it really makes me want to try and switch over to it, but I get the impression that the basic spreadsheet engine in D2G is more polished (e.g. Because so many of my workbooks are set up as a summary sheet with background sheets for the detailed calculations I often only want to look at the summary and rarely need to switch to other sheets so for me the D2G UI works better but for others it may well be different. D2G has a button that takes one to a separate switching screen to change sheet within the workbook. QO makes it look just like a desktop with tabs along the bottom which is quicker to navigate around but, because the tabs are always there, it steals a bit of screen space. It's a tough call but on balance I'd give the UI for sheet switching to D2G. to get all 12 months of a financial spreadsheet in view. Also, I found D2G zooms more smoothly so it's easier to pinch-zoom the size accurately, e.g. QO doesn't resize the legends in the rows so, as the row heights get smaller, the numbers identifying each row don't fit properly. It works better when on a low zoom setting (i.e. I haven't investigated exactly what it is that upsets QO about these cells yet. On my first test sheet D2G rendered it perfectly whereas QO was having a formatting issue with certain cells that show correctly as something like "-65.60" in D2G but "#" in QO. For example D2G has separate toolbar buttons for inserting and deleting rows & columns whereas QO has a single button that invokes a pop-up that then has the tools to do all column and row manipulations. D2G has a really crowded toolbar at the bottom whereas QO does it all with far fewer buttons which bring up pop-up panes that contain a set of related functionality. if only there was an app that combined the best of both then we'd have a winner. My initial impressions are annoyingly typical of the iPad app world, i.e. I work almost entirely with Office 2007 (.xlsx) spreadsheets so haven't looked at the word processor much at all. I'm a long time D2G user (since the PalmOS days) and I bought the iPad version on launch day.