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PlanMaker

spreadsheet software developed and published by SoftMaker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ2098036 ↗
Source-derived summary

PlanMaker is a spreadsheet program that is part of the SoftMaker Office suite. It is available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android and iOS.

PlanMaker is largely similar to Microsoft Excel in function and workflow and uses the same file format .xlsx. The syntax of the formulas is identical, pivot tables are possible. Furthermore it can import SQLite databases.

Macros and VBA scripts contained in .xlsm cannot be executed, but are retained when saving. BasicMaker provides a VBA-like scripting language under Windows for SoftMaker Office.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “PlanMaker” as spreadsheet software developed and published by SoftMaker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around PlanMaker, spreadsheet and software.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 86-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with PlanMaker, spreadsheet and software providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2098036. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “PlanMaker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.