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This month Intel opened a new website called CoolSW that uses “crowd sourcing” to highlight software. “The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software,” says the site. Members post information about an interesting software company, and site visitors vote on whether that company is “cool.”

If you sometimes need a PDF but don’t want to spend $299 for Adobe Acrobat, this free service could be the answer. LOOP is a SaaS offering that creates PDFs from MS Office files, graphics, or web pages. It can even combine numerous files into a single PDF.

One obvious use: Packing a mess of files into a single attachment that’s easier to send and receive by e-mail. LOOP doesn’t offer all the advanced features of the full Acrobat package, but how often do you need those anyway?

This free PDF-making software comes from Irvine, Calif.-based Drawloop Technologies, which claims 30,000 users. The company provides more powerful document packaging services for a fee. This is one example of the kind of disruptive technology that established software firms need to watch out for. Note to Adobe: Consider buying these guys before you-know-who discovers them. Copyright (c) 2007, Computing Technology Industry Association, Inc.

LOOP to PDF was posted today on Intel’s Software Network called Cool Software. The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software. Members can post information about an interesting new software company and, more important, the community votes on whether they think a software company is, well, “cool.”

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Since Excel range names are necessary to use Excel with our document creation services, we thought it would be a good idea to let other people “in” on our range name secrets. For LOOPlus, one of our products on Salesforce AppExchange, range names are used to map Salesforce fields into an Excel file for Dynamic Document Packages^TM. In our soon to be released LOOP Exchange platform, range names map from fields on a web form to an Excel file then possibly to a Microsoft Word or PowerPoint file. As you can see, Excel range names are an important part of our lives.

Excel tries to make it easy to create and delete range names and modify which cells a range name refers to, but what if you need to do more than that? Jan Karel Pieterse (in collaboration with Decision Models, UK) developed a great range name tool called Name Manager 4.0 that shows you a list of range names which you can filter by scope, names containing text, hidden names, 2-d multi-area names, and much more. This tool has the standard range name functions, add, delete, edit the ‘refers to’ formula, as well as some handy and necessary functions like editing the actual range name (which also gives you the option to edit the range name in all formulas that reference that name).

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You can download Name Manager 4.0 here.