Tree-Outliner with internal EXCEL full-edit ribbon viewer?

Posted by donleone
Jul 14, 2013 at 02:06 PM

Hello Outliner Experts.

Currently i am using Ultra Recall Professional 5 to fulfill my 2 prime outliner needs of:

1. Having a super elegant Tree Structure (preferable with custom icons, one-click open/close, etc.)

and

2. An internal full-editable native EXCEL viewer implementation (i.e. no external window pop-up via attachments, and please NOT (!) an implementation via Internet Explorer ActiveX Hosting like UR does so far, which crashes left and right with bugs.)

Ultra Recall Professional is “pretty nice” in general, IF IT WERE NOT ONLY for its most horribly bad internal RTF-Editor (scrolling is horrible, no tables row adding/editing nothing possible!)
and likewise their most horrible internal Internet Explorer ActiveX implementation of editing MS Word (with ribbon) and MS Excel (no ribbon possible, IE security limitation!).

Because of that I am looking for an alternative.

but forget all other “spreadsheet-supporting” Outliners, like Rightnote / AM-Notebook / Memomaster etc. of which again all are horribly bad in their spread-sheet capabilities and usabilities compared to EXCEL (as e.g. even the scrolling beyond 100 rows, larger import total crash, no multi sheets, most formulas dont work etc..)

and also forget please all so called “excel addins” like XLNotes, Excel Explorer etc…which likewise totally unstably tend to crash / loose data (in some comments fields forever gone!) etc. etc…. and are no alternative to a “real” free-form database/outliner software.

So my ONLY ALTERNATIVE so far found is TreeProjects which has a full Excel internal editing viewer (but not via an IE implementation like UR does, but directly with Excel itself !).

The only thing with “TreeProjects”, is to say the least, its “pretty limited” feature set compared to the far better developed UR (with custom fields, search folders, etc…).

Therefore, does any of you know another Software besides UR and TreeProjects that can likewise FULL internally edit Excel files, and does but NOT go via Internet Explorer to accomplish it ??? If so, then please let me know.

Thanks all.