Pocket Excel is the a version of Microsoft Excel created for mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs. When saving files in Pocket Excel you will be saving them with the file extension pxl. To open a pxl file on your computer you can use Open Office Calc. Open Office Calc allows you to open pxl files as well as create them. This can be very useful if you are trying to create a spreadsheet for on the go use.
Open Office Calc can be download for free from the internet. Open Office Calc comes in the Open Office software bundle and is an open source program. This means that the program is free to download and use by everyone. Updates to Open Office Calc and other programs in the Open Office line are made by contributions of either money or code from its users.
Software companies want customers to only use their products. This is why they do not make their products compatible with other program file types. Because Open Office software is open source, programmers can make the software compatible with any number of opposing software file extensions. Every program in the Open Office software bundle is highly compatible with other like programs on the market.