| Comparison Points |
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OfficeReady Marketing Plans |
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Marketing Plan Pro |
| Works with Microsoft Office |
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Works with Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 |
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Does not work with Office |
| Advisor Text |
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Extensive; every workbook has extensive help and contains sample data |
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Limited |
| Sample plans |
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Very detailed real life examples |
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Limited; short demo like plans |
| Professional Print Quality |
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High Quality - Great control over color, fonts, styles |
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Fair - Medium; product has a limited "Text Manager" |
| View and work with entire document |
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Just like Office |
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Can only view section you are working with |
| Share documents from plan |
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Anyone with Office can read and change it |
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Requires a copy of Business Plan Pro |
| Charts |
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Over 21 |
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6 |
| Worksheets |
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Over 30 |
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6 |
| Comprehensive detail in each workbook (e.g Marketing Expense) |
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Over 28 expense items detailed by month and aggregated by quarter for three years |
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Limited number of expense items; month for first year - then by year for 2 years. |
| # of sales forecast methods |
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5 |
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2 |
| Expandable Sales forecast |
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| Sales forecast customizable |
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| Planning function comparisons |
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- |
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| - Advertising Analysis |
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2 worksheets |
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None |
| - Competitive Analysis |
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6 worksheets |
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None |
| - Sales Metrics |
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2 worksheets |
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None |
| - Pricing Analysis |
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Mark-up and target pricing analysis |
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None |
| Ability to extract and export portion of workbook for review by another Excel user |
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| International Currency Compatibility |
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| A4 Page Formatting |
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Automatically Detected |
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Unavailable |
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