What's new in v8 since v7:

• New Formula Functions
• Ability to create a custom cell
• A 64-bit DLL control
• Shape and color settings for cell notes
• New OCX methods for saving and loading to/from a buffer
• New event for circular references
• Enhanced appearance
• Enhanced appearance for headers and sheet corners
• Enhanced appearance for scroll bars
• Enhanced appearance for sheet tabs
• Enhanced selection highlighting
• Additional export options when exporting to HTML
• Users can apply a secondary sort using control-click

What's new in v.8 since v. 6:

• Multiple Sheets support
• Cross-sheet Formula Referencing
• Unicode Support
• Built-in Support for Moving Rows or Columns, with visual indication
• New Scientific Notation celltype
• Improved Number Formatting
• Faster, improved Sorting
• More Robust Spread Designer
• Customize the colors, widths and the heights for the Scroll Bars
• Double-click the header to automatically resize the column to the widest text
• Scalable (Percentage) Printing
• Fit-To-Page Printing
• Center Horizontal and Center Vertical Printing
• Control Characters (such as /time, /date) for Printing the Header and Footer
• Enhanced image type support, including .gif and .jpg
• Expanded Text Tips Support (allows >1000 characters)
• LoadTextFile defaults to 32,000 characters when loading a file
• Hide or show the focus rectangle when the cell has focus
• Auto-Positioning of the cursor when using EditModePermanent
• Column Labels Convertible (letters to numbers and numbers to letters)
• Align Text and Images in the Button Cell
• Maximum Column Width Calculations Can Include Button Cells
• Refresh the Data Set without affecting headers
• Check Box Cell Has Familiar Windows Appearance
• Event for Scroll Tips
• DataLoaded event fires when all data has been loaded from the database

What's new in v.8 since v. 3.5:

• All features listed above, plus...
• Define multiple column and header rows
• Merge columns or rows that contain identical data for easier viewing of the data
• Create a cell span to join multiple cells
• Use Spread's new Search feature to find specified text or values in a column or row
• Rotate cell or header text 90 degrees, 180 degrees or 270 degrees
• Identify any column by giving it a unique name (useful when moving columns)
• Automatically display negative numbers as red in currency, number, and percent cells
• Set user-defined tags for a specified cell, column, row, or the entire spreadsheet
• Type one or more characters to automatically search for an item in the list of a combo box cell
• New Percent cell type
• Enhanced Currency cell type
• Enhanced Number cell type
• Data can overflow into adjacent empty cells while edit mode is on in a cell
• Display a spin button in a currency, date, number, percent, or time cell
• Copy, Move or Swap the data and formatting in a range of columns, rows, or cells in the spreadsheet.

What's new in v.8 since v. 3.0:

• All features listed above, plus...
• Define multiple column and header rows
• Merge columns or rows that contain identical data for easier viewing of the data
• Create a cell span to join multiple cells
• Use Spread's new Search feature to find specified text or values in a column or row
• Rotate cell or header text 90 degrees, 180 degrees or 270 degrees
• Identify any column by giving it a unique name (useful when moving columns)
• Automatically display negative numbers as red in currency, number, and percent cells
• Set user-defined tags for a specified cell, column, row, or the entire spreadsheet
• Type one or more characters to automatically search for an item in the list of a combo box cell
• New Percent cell type
• Enhanced Currency cell type
• Enhanced Number cell type
• Data can overflow into adjacent empty cells while edit mode is on in a cell
• Display a spin button in a currency, date, number, percent, or time cell
• Copy, Move or Swap the data and formatting in a range of columns, rows, or cells in the spreadsheet.
• Cells in the Spread control can have notes associated with them
• The Spread control can display scroll tips as users move the scroll box
• You can export a range of cells or the entire spreadsheet in XML format to a file or a buffer
• Users can sort by clicking column headers using built-in sort
• Users can print a spreadsheet to an owner-defined area of the page, allowing you to print multiple items on a single page.
• Cells can display ellipsis points when left-aligned text is too long to fit in the cell
• New mathematical and other functions are provided by the Calc Engine
• Improved Spread Designer
• You can set the pop-up calendar text for a specific Spread control
• You can export a range of cells or the entire spreadsheet in ASCII text format to a file and specify the delimiters you want to use to separate your data in the file
• 27 methods and 20 events have been enhanced for use in scripting environments

What's new in v.8 since v. 2.5:

• All features listed above, plus...
• Define multiple column and header rows
• Merge columns or rows that contain identical data for easier viewing of the data
• Create a cell span to join multiple cells
• Use Spread's new Search feature to find specified text or values in a column or row
• Rotate cell or header text 90 degrees, 180 degrees or 270 degrees
• Identify any column by giving it a unique name (useful when moving columns)
• Automatically display negative numbers as red in currency, number, and percent cells
• Set user-defined tags for a specified cell, column, row, or the entire spreadsheet
• Type one or more characters to automatically search for an item in the list of a combo box cell
• New Percent cell type
• Enhanced Currency cell type
• Enhanced Number cell type
• Data can overflow into adjacent empty cells while edit mode is on in a cell
• Display a spin button in a currency, date, number, percent, or time cell
• Copy, Move or Swap the data and formatting in a range of columns, rows, or cells in the spreadsheet.
• Cells in the Spread control can have notes associated with them
• The Spread control can display scroll tips as users move the scroll box
• You can export a range of cells or the entire spreadsheet in XML format to a file or a buffer
• Users can sort by clicking column headers using built-in sort
• Users can print a spreadsheet to an owner-defined area of the page, allowing you to print multiple items on a single page.
• Cells can display ellipsis points when left-aligned text is too long to fit in the cell
• New mathematical and other functions are provided by the Calc Engine
• Improved Spread Designer
• You can set the pop-up calendar text for a specific Spread control
• You can export a range of cells or the entire spreadsheet in ASCII text format to a file and specify the delimiters you want to use to separate your data in the file
• 27 methods and 20 events have been enhanced for use in scripting environments
• Bind the spreadsheet to ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.0 using OLE DB technology
• Import and export spreadsheet files in Microsoft Excel 97 format (BIFF 8) -- 32-bit versions only
• Export spreadsheet files as HTML (version 3.2 and greater) files -- 32-bit versions only
• Use the new Print Preview control to see how your printed spreadsheet will look
• Enhance a combo box cell using the FarPoint List Pro fpCombo control, available separately
• Supports OLE drag and drop
• Load data from or save data to an integer or float array
• Provide text tips
• Use one of 74 functions (includes 61 new ones) in your formulas
• Sort with up to 256 sort keys
• Disable or change the F2, F3, and F4 special editing keys
• Set more than one border color and style for the same cell
• Provide different colors for alternating rows
• Define a custom mouse pointer for drag-and-drop operations
• Make the scroll bar track mouse movement throughout the spreadsheet
• Specify the vertical alignment of the contents in all cell types
• Customize the background and text color for selected cells
• Choose whether or not to include headers when copying data to the Clipboard
• Create a Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 appearance for the control
• Display short and long day and month names in the popup calendar
• Recalculate the value of an individual cell
• Retrieve and set data in float or integer cells as numeric values
• Query the list of, retrieve information about, or remove custom functions
• Allow the width of a combo box cell to change based on the width of the widest item
• Specify the number of rows in the drop-down list of a combo box cell
• Set the minimum and maximum date ranges (including the century)
• Calculate the number of pages to print based on the current print settings
• Query the next page break either by row or column
• Define the starting page number to print in the header of the first page
• Specify the order in which pages are printed (down then across or across then down)
• Fire events when the user changes text while in edit mode, when the list drops down in a combo box cell, when the combo box closes, and when the user selects another item or reselects the same item in a combo box cell
• Support the IntelliMouse