Google Spreadsheets

[Chris Knight]

These work beautifully ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/ ... share.html )! I imported some I use regularly from Excel on my PC to my Google account and they transferred perfectly except for some box colouring (actually a conditional format but I haven't explored all the limitations yet).

I think they could be very helpful for all sorts of collaborative stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice find Chris. I reckon that is one of the best things to come out onto Google labs for quite a while.
As you say, collaborative working will move a step forward if they hit main stream

 

[dedee]

Chris,
doesn't work on Safari which is surprising as most other Mozilla/Firefox type application usually do. I've had a play in the office and it copes well with some pretyy complicated formulae. It's a shame there is no pivot table & graph functions yet but I expect that will come.

If this concept takes off, and why shouldn't it, home computers could soon become dumb terminals alleviating the need for high end processing power, memory & disk storage. This concept was muted around ICL about 15 years ago when offices were regularly raided for their computer components rather than the computers themselves.

I wonder if Google will attack word processing next.

Andy

 

[gidon]

I don't know - it didn't do too well importing a fairly basic spreadsheet I had. Couldn't see how to get pound signs, VLOOKUP seems to work but isn't listed as a function, most annoyingly the pick lists don't work.
Still pretty slick though - I'm sure I'll find a use for it .
Cheers
Gidon

 

[dedee]

Gidon,
£ signs are not listed in the standard formats but do work when typed and saved. I expect this will be resolved.

Vlookup is there, select forumlas, then more>> and scroll down, they are grouped by category rather than alphabetically.

I don't use Pick Lists in excel, in fact I am not at all sure what they are.

Andy

 

[syntec4]

I like it. very Handy. Although I dont see any support for graphs/charts. Although I might have missed it.
thanks for the heads up anyway.

Lee.