CNET Editors' review
ASAP Utilities promises to simplify and speed up the experience of working with Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program. By providing dozens of simply applied options, it's certain to gain fans among frequent Excel users.
ASAP Utilities' interface will be familiar to frequent Excel users. The program is embedded into the spreadsheet program along the top row of commands, next to Excel's Help option. You navigate it with expandable menus that look very much like other Excel menus. There's a small Help file, but we recommend simply experimenting with the functions. The 21 options include Text, Columns, Numbers, Formulas, and several more. Clicking a topic showcases several related options in menu style as well. For example, within the Favorites and Shortcuts option, users can pick from 20 specific choices including resizing, coloring, and copying. You apply your choices by inputting specific cell numbers and other data, and ASAP Utilities quickly converts your spreadsheet. We were impressed not only with the breadth of options, but also by how simple each was to utilize. The program's finest feature assigns a hot-key combination to each of the Favorites and Shortcuts. We only wish ASAP Utilities offered such options for every command, since it cuts a few seconds off of work and helps maintain a rhythm.
With simple navigation and an amazing range of options, it won't take the full 90-day trial to realize how this program ASAP Utilities enhances your work with Excel. We recommend it unreservedly.
Publisher's Description
From A Must in Every Office:
ASAP Utilities is a Microsoft Excel add-in. ASAP Utilities gives you over 300 different Excel utilities and shortcuts to choose from. For example remove duplicates, sort by color, filter by color, remove excessive spaces, save a range or chart as gif or jpg, apply a formula to cells, deselect cells. Be more productive and make your life in Excel easier. ASAP Utilities saves time and makes work easier for Excel users, both beginner and expert. It can sort the sheet tabs by name or color, export worksheets as separate files, quickly create many worksheets with auto-naming, and copy a worksheet's page and print settings. The ASAP Utilities Business Edition is only meant for Home use, Students and Charitable organizations.
What's new in this version: Version 4.8.6 has small improvements and spelling corrections.
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4.6 starsout of 27 votes
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"Great Software, It has helped me so much in my job!"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.8
Pros
Does so much that excel should do
Cons
none that I have found
Summary
Makes my work much more productive in less time! Love it!
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"ASAP is by far the most powerful Excel utility anywhere"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.7.2
Pros
- It is immediately useful
- Yet there is many utilities to learn over time
- Have used it for over 10 years, ASAP is extremely reliable.
- Great interface with ribbon style applicationsCons
None to speak of
Summary
Get it, use it, buy the pro edition to thank the developer.
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"Great, easy to use add-in"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.7.2
Pros
Very easy to use. Includes features I had never thought of, but now find myself using.
Cons
Have not found any.
Summary
Does many functions, if done manually, can be time consuming and/or frustrating to get done.
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"Great Software"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.7.1
Pros
Automates lots of operations
Cons
None that I remember, although the author has gone through many updates to correct problems
Summary
Have been using versions of this software for years and it is indispensable
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"not using..."
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.7.1
Pros
can't find much
Cons
not worth the money...
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"Good Excel Utilities"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.7.1
Pros
Good Excel Utilities
Cons
Required up grades
Summary
Good Excel Utilities
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"Handy program for 32-bit Excel users."
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.6.4
Pros
Adds lots of extra handy tools to Excel 32-bit.
Cons
Not avaialble for Excel 64-bit.
Summary
Outlook in 64-bit Office is faster and so much better than the 32-bit version, so I was prepared to go without ASAP for the time being.
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"Usefull tool, a lot of gadgets"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.6.4
Pros
Its free for non-corporate users, a lot of functional tools that saves a lot of time.
Cons
Somtime crashes excel. (2% of times)
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"Absolute must!"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.6.3
Pros
Excellent utilities, adds a lot of functionality to Excel, potentially saving hours of work
Cons
Overwhelming number of choices, some options not very clear, bugs you too much to upgrade to the newest version.
Summary
If you spend much time cleaning data or manipulating data in Excel, you must download and install ASAP Utilities. It will save you hours in productivity gains.
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"Does what it says"
Version: ASAP Utilities Home and Student Edition 4.6.3
Pros
Provides useful routines not easily available in standard Excel
Cons
Needs clearer fuller explanations of what's available and what it does.
Summary
Helps me deal with badly formatted or difficult to use Excel inputs from others. Specialised but good within the specialisation
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