The Express Edition is restricted in many ways compared to the full fledged version. This is quite understandable and OK given that its free.
There are just two things I think that should be changed in P Express:
1) Regions containing premium features like symbolics or solve blocks should be evaluated. It may be OK if its prevented to edit those regions and of course creating new ones, but they should evaluate. That way Express really could be used a true Mathcad Reader (as we had one with version 7, I think). If a recalculation makes a worksheet containing premium feature fail as is the case now, the value of Express as a reader is zero. Even printing it to a pdf would make a better job.
2) Given that Express should also act as a teaser which should make appetite for more, in my opinion it would be better for PTC if programming would not be considered a premium feature. Hardly a fairly serious worksheet requires no programming.
I haven't tested it, but from what you wrote it looks like Express would just allow you to use the few predefined templates. This would seem OK to me as it would give you the opportunity to see what templates are for and look like.
After all its entirely up to PTC what they are willing to give away for free.
