Easy declaration of formulas & functions

Besides simple expression calculations and internally defined functions, you can use variables, custom functions and custom formulas.

Two types of formula declarations are available - with or without the result. Result is counted into subtotal, total and the sheet total value (displayed at the bottom), so sometimes it is preferred to define the formula only.

Both functions and formulas can be defined as nested - by using another functions and formulas in their declarations.

Variables are basically a simple (constant) formulas, that you can use for better clarity in some short, but multi-step calculations.

Smart input handling,
various result formatting options

Unlike other similar apps, Qaltex automatically detects a "dot key" pressed in numeric keyboard, and puts required decimal separator (a dot) into the document, instead of decimal separator defined in Windows's regional settings. Using other text based calculators without this little hack is very annoying in non-english environments, where decimal separator is usually not a "dot".

Also the options for formatting the result are not always a matter of course in similar apps. Qaltex allows you to choose thousands and decimal separators, as well as many other options that affects presentation of results to user.

Qaltex includes a few more smart keyboard shortcuts, like

• "Tab / Shift+Tab (next & previous number)", that allows you to easily traverse and modify numbers in sheet
• "End key", that contextually goes to the end of expression or to the end of line respectively
• "Shift+Enter (Use result)", that carries the current line result over to the new line
• "Ctrl+Enter (Previous line result)", that inserts referrence to the previous line result into current expression

Groups, comments, underlines,
totals & subtotals

Qaltex's syntax highlighting, that visually differentiate expression elements (numbers, operators, functions, etc.) is not the only one feature you can use to structure the content of your document. Groups, comments and underlines allows you to arrange and describe blocks of your calculations in a very good manner.

Totals and subtotals are your best options to get a quick sum (or count, average, median, etc.) of previous lines.

Sheet's total, displayed at the bottom of each page, serves as an indicative result for some fast or temporary calculations - ie. if you type a few numbers (one at each line) you get their total in the bottom panel immediately.

In terms of results formatting, underlines behave the same way as totals - so the results shown on the following line, are displayed in bold.

Printing & exporting

While exporting means you save all texts & formatting of the selected sheet (or the whole document) into desired file format, by printing you can get a user-friendly printable version of your calculations.

You can choose a special skin for exporting and printing, so you can freely work in a dark theme, but export / print in a classic white-background skin.

Export is allowed to a variety of formats, like HTML, PDF, RTF, TXT and CSV.

Printing is made into HTML format and the resulting file is opened in a default web browser, where you can print it, or save it into another format. Unless you want to always print into PDF format, which option is available in application settings.

Toolbars - a mouse-friendly UI

Toolbars are fully customizable panels, that include buttons for numbers, operators, functions or even a whole snippets of "code". You can display the toolbar by using the "Tools -> Toolbar" menu option (or F8 hot-key).

Toolbar declarations are simple text files with easy to use syntax. You can create your own toolbars by using an "Edit" command of the toolbar context menu, and the finished changes can be saved by Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut under the name of your choice.

Open the "Toolbars" example to learn more about declaration, usage and available content of toolbars.