Google Spreadsheet

[Harlan Grove]

It's maybe a competitor for ThinkFree Office's spreadsheet, but Excel
is safe for now. No array formula support. Google Spreadsheet's (GS's)
online function list shows MMULT, but there's no way to use it, and
when it opens .xls files that do use it, it converts those cells to
values WITHOUT any warning that it has done so.

It also starts off with a capacious 20 columns by 100 rows. The number
of columns can be expanded to 256, but it takes several Insert commands
to do so. For that reason, I didn't bother checking how many rows it
could hold.

And commands/menus are all over the top of the screen.

Anyone interested should definitely compare it to ThinkFree,

http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo

as well as to Excel.

 

[Bearacade]

It's a work in progress. Give it some time, I think it will be O

 

[dbahooker]

excel isn't safe.

Excel is a piece of shit; microsoft hasn't innovated in 20 years of
Excel

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CAN EDIT THE SAME SPREADSHEET; OF COURSE GOOGLE IS
GOING TO WIN THIS WAR!!!!!!

 

[dbahooker]

ANY PROPERLY CONCIEVED SPREADSHEET MODEL CAN LIVE WITHIN THOSE LIMITS

20x100 is all you need to store everything in Harlans' whole BRAIN

 

[Don Guillett]

I have not gotten an invitation to download? Do we wait for them after the
"signup"?

 

[Bearacade]

Pretty much, From what I have heard, some gets it within hours, I go
it overnight, YMM

 

[Don Guillett]

I signed up a couple of days ago and have heard nothing since.

 

[dbahooker]

i guess so i cant friggin wait.

I feel like quitting my job; and going on unemployment and building
mashups

(IRS, im kidding-- i know you have me by the balls)

-Aaron

 

[dbahooker]

seriously.

if anyone can send me an invite; i will do anything in my power to pay
you back

i will even stay out of the excel channel
(but you might need to remind me)


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you get the idea..

thanks guys

 

[Jim Cone]

Don,
I signed up yesterday and have heard nothing.
Enrollment is limited, so I assume they are making
random assignments.
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware



"Don Guillett"
<[email protected]>
wrote in message
I signed up a couple of days ago and have heard nothing since.

 

[Harlan Grove]

Bearacade wrote...

It's a work in progress. Give it some time, I think it will be OK

....

It most definitely is a work in progress. The UI is the least polished
aspect. All commands should be in either a SINGLE menu or RECOGNIZABLE
toolbars, not scattered as so many random links across the top of the
browser window.

It doesn't support using cursor keys in POINT mode, though it does
support using mouse click and drag.

It doesn't support [F4] to cycle through relative-absolute range
referencing.

Google has got to come up with a better way of inserting rows and
columns or resizing the worksheet grid.

But it's single greatest failing is NOT REPORTING that it changes ANY
formulas into values when loading .xls files from the client's machine.
That's inexcusable and shows a lack of basic awareness on the part of
the developers/designers. Less annoying but only somewhat so, using,
say, MMULT to generate array results requires something like

A15:
=INDEX(MMULT($A$1:$C$3,$A$11:$C$13),ROWS(A$15:A15),COLUMNS($A15:A15))

copying A15 and pasting into A15:C17. [So, Aaron, it requires MUCH MORE
copying and pasting than Excel. Have fun.]

There are already several online spreadsheets, though they may not be
multiple user, but they're much more polished.

 

[zutalors212]

What's so good about many people being able to edit a spreadsheet?