This suite of three spreadsheet-type programs could be a useful alternative to the PRK module for rich Texas owners.

It lets you create a form, called a 'screen', with full control of layout - and without some of the daft restrictions of the PRK. You must design everything on paper first, though.

More than one field per screen line can be specified, and up to 20 fields over 23 screen lines are permitted, up to a total character count for the field contents of 256.

There are a number of useful screen-editing facilities, and on the whole I found the creation program easy to use.

As with the PRK, you can specify the type of data acceptable for each field, but I found one fault: the first field is used as the form number and must have a particular data type and a minimum number of characters.

It is easy to overlook this, and it can cause problems later. You can come unstuck over character counts in a similar way.

The documentation is very good. I could fault it in only one respect: not once does it tell you that you need Extended Basic.