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The Great Software List highest rating

Since several months ASAP Utilities is listed on The Great Software List. I'm proud, especially when I read their selection criteria.

The Great Software List is an advocate of great software and ignores mediocre software. It is composed of high quality programs that share most or all of the following features:

(1) Ease of use based on a well-designed user interface;
(2) A generous array of keyboard shortcuts (preferably customizable);
(3) Customizability where applicable; and
(4) Affordability.

New version for Excel 97: 3.10d, september 20, 2006

A new version of ASAP Utilties for Excel 97 has just been released. You can download version 3.10d, september 20, 2006 for Excel 97.

Major reasons for this release are serveral bugfixes.

This version is compatible with Excel 97 and all future versions. It does not require any special user-rights during the setup. If you have Excel 2000 or newer and you do have administrator or power user rights we recommend you to use the new version 4.0 also available from our website. That new version has some great new and improved utilities.

New version: September 20, 2006

A new version of ASAP Utilities is just released. You can download 4.0.4, September 20, 2006.

Major reason for this release are a few bugfixes.

Thank you all for the feedback on version 4.0.3 and the preview version of 4.0.4!

ASAP Utilities released its new version (4.0) today!

We're proud to officially announce the new version of ASAP Utilities!

Version 4.0 is compatible with Excel 2000 and all future Excel versions. This new version has a lot of improvements in comparison to the previous version 3.10c.

A comprehensive User Guide will show you how to get the best out of ASAP Utilities. This 141 pages document can be downloaded as PDF.

My thanks goes out to each and every one of you for your suggestions and bug-reports the past years. ASAP Utilities continues to grow and improve thanks to your support, your suggestions and your encouragement.

ASAP Utilities is (as always) free and contains no spyware!

Kind regards,

Bastien Mensink
ASAP Utilities

Welcome to the new ASAP Utilities website!

ASAP Utilities has a new website and a logo. The previous website has been used from 2001 until august 2006. We are really enthusiastic about the new website. And we hope you are as excited about the new look of the ASAP Utilities website as we are.

About new logo

After thinking for a long time we have created a logo for ASAP Utilities. It had to be:

• simple and clear
• multilangual
• unique and easy to recognize
• easy to be displayed on screen and print
• represent what ASAP Utilities stands for: Easy to use time-saving tools.
• not similar to all the current spreadsheet-a-like logos

After a long time we came with the thumbs-up logo in orange. In the Netherlands thumbs-up means okay, good (Wikipedia definition of thumbs-up). Orange is the national color of the Netherlands. Together we think it looks great.
The sub-phrase "the essential add-in for excel users" might sound a bit cocky but it is not ment that way.  PC Magazine called ASAP Utilities “the one essential add-in for all Excel usersâ€� in it's 2005 Ultimate Utility Guide. However we do believe that everybody that works more or less regular with Excel will benefit from the tools ASAP Utilities has to offer.

About the new website

We have been playing with the idea for a new website since a few years. In the past five years we have built numerous websites for our clients and invented some neat techniques for presentation and content-management.

This year I finally could make time free to update my personal favorite utility. We have spent much time on improving ASAP Utilities (see the blog) and we have written a detailed User Guide. Now there is also the new logo and website.

The most important reasons for the new ASAP Utilities website:

• more focus on ASAP Utilities itself instead of Excel
• more detailed information about ASAP Utilities; what it is and how it works
• present the information better
• printer-friendly pages
• drop the use of frames which makes linking to certain pages easier
• works in all browsers
• better accessibility, for example larger and resizable fonts, and working better on all screens (in 2006 the most used screensizes on our website are 1024x768 56%, 1280x1024 18%, 800x600 9%)
• better use of today's site-building techniques
• a website that is easier to maintain for us