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- heymark, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31If by "threat" you mean "a web-based dumbed-down version that is nifty and gets other companies to progress, but isn't exactly an anything-killer"? Then, yes, i agree with you.
But, it's good to hear they are progressing. - misterpurple, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Do you think this means right-click is coming to other Google stuff, ala Gmail and Calendar? I hope so.
- helikopter, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18or, if they mean "a web based, easily portable and sharable, free alternative"
- dmron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Whatever. I dont see businesses using this, duh. But for people like me, it's great. I have a couple of ongoing spreadsheets that I update every couple weeks, the main one being a record of all my expenses. It's things like that that this product is perfect for. I shouldnt have to spend $500 on ***** MS Office to have this kind of basic functionality. Haven't you ever heard that like 90% of the people don't use 90% of the features available in Excel or Word? They're overkill. :P
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13yeah, 1.1.4b (beta) to 1.1.4d (delta)
where are the 3d charts? ;) - toddomatic, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11It's actually a pretty good commentary on how few features the majority of people use (and need) in spreadsheet and word processing programs.
- mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Er... he didn't mean 90% literally. He was exagerrating, but he's still right. Most people don't use many of the features included in those programs.
- sarusa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Absolutely. I have Excel on my computer at work and home and I use google spreadsheet a lot because:
1) It's available anywhere I go, easily.
2) It's easy to collaborate.
3) the functionality it has is sufficient for most things we need to do.
I still haul out Excel for graphing, because it's really good at that. - sarusa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Oh and to add to that,
4) It's just one tab in Firefox instead of a whole separate window.
5) It's far less resource piggy.
I still respect Excel, it's a good product. But honestly there's a lot of featuritis that I don't need. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9How about if you're a contractor and you want to keep track of expenses, hours and miles, you can just create a google spreadsheet and share it so your clients can log in anytime and see how the expenses are running. I wouldn't dream of doing pivot tables in javascript but for small spreadsheets it can be useful.
- dcmax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Okay, all you nay sayers, skeptics, and insidious pro-Microsoft bloggers, let's all be honest for a minute. Microsoft has been working on Excel since 1985 (21 years). Google has been working on its spreadsheet application for, what, one year maybe? It's going to take Google time to catch up in this regard. But, all of us being honest, Google is off to a very good start. And given the talent and aggressiveness of its engineers and management, somehow I seriously doubt it will take Google much longer before core Microsoft Office applications, such as Excel, become significantly less relevant than they are today.
- Chesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6One thing that would really improve Google Spreadsheets would be the ability to click and drag boxes to auto fill in numbers ala Excel.
- oedenfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I need merge vertical cells!
- druid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6...you're missing 'web 3.0', 'wiki' 'collective' and 'emergent'. You almost had a bingo.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+91.1.4b to 1.1.4d
Sure about that? - spellcheckd, on 06/28/2009, -1/+5still no fill down. it's useless
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well i know you can fill down a column in google spreadsheets by selecting a cell with some content, and then selecting the cells below it and using 'ctrl+d'.
copied and pasted from my other comment for you :) - pbh101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3actually, I used this as soon as it came out. I need to keep track of my own timesheets for multiple contracting jobs I do. I used to carry a flash drive and worry about sync'ing it up on different computers.
Spreadsheets came out just in time for my summer jobs to easily keep track of my hours. It's the perfect solution, really.
As far as the sharing, I don't need that option, but if the guy who just did our World Cup bracket knew about this, he could have done a much better job than mailing around a 5 megabyte excel file.
I don't understand the constant badgering on products released by Google as not being good enough...
I want technology to make my life easier. So far, google has done this best. GCal is integrated with Gmail, as is GTalk and Picasa (to an extent, I'd like to see more)
I use Gtalk b/c it seamlessly saves my chats within Gmail and Gdesktop search (by far the easiest way to search for something on the compy or even launch a search)
all my friends use it (converted lots to it, not hard when they use gmail already), and yet my grandma can still figure it out. It made online voice much easier than AIM or MSN (i would always get a msg that the friends' client wasn't capable of this or that feature)
google succeeds where it makes life easier. Now if anyone knows how to sync my calendar with my cell phone, much obliged i would be ;-) - DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you probably have disabled: options>javascript>enable context menu
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well i know you can fill down a column in google spreadsheets by selecting a cell with some content, and then selecting the cells below it and using 'ctrl+d'.
- jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I see how this has a small base of users for people who are at the library, etc but would any of you use this on your computer (where you can install Open Office)?
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Both Yahoo and Hotmail's new AJAXy interfaces work in FF, IE, and Opera 9. I have used them successfully in all 3 browsers.
- riceklown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4well, you all do know that 85% of the statistics people mention are made up on the fly right? Or was it 90%? ;)
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Adsense, mainstream ajax UIs, huge free mailboxes, awesome mapping/satellite interface, google news (wide-scale automated news culling and categorizing). These are all areas google led the way in.
- Unbathed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cut and paste are still broken. If you cut a cell or range and paste it elsewhere, references to that cell or range should be updated.
Copy works. - mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I know it sounds harsh but... when you're a real minority it doesn't really pay to design for your browser. For web developers anyway. Safari really should be supported, especially by Google. No excuse for that.
- rapeandruin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm definitely going to have to disagree with you there. Unless google gets a minor programming language like Visual Basic for Applications. It will not be above Excel. One of the great things about Excel (and the entire Microsoft Office Suite) is that you can create macros and do some really amazing stuff. I've managed to have macros, download files off the internet, open and close workbooks while doing formatting and such, create folders, and a bunch of other cool *****. I'll think about switching to Google Spreadsheets once they add this feature.
Oh also...what the hell...100 rows and hardly any columns? Maybe I'm missing something... - oedenfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I want to have two cells in the A column and right next to them in the B column I want 1 cell the height of both cells in the A column... just like I can do in Calc and Excel.
- Doomhammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think that, even though it doesn't have all the features of Office, it might put up some competition for Microsoft, namely for three reasons:
1. It's free.
2. It doesn't have a ton of extra features you really don't want / need most of the time.
3. It's really easy to access your stuff from any computer anywhere in the world. No more dealing with "oh but this version of Excel can't open that version of Excel's files" or any crap like that.
Of course, some of Office's more advanced features might be useful for larger corporations etc., but for the average home user, Google Spreadsheet is probably a better, easier, and less expensive solution.
Just my 0.02. :) - lordelric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3We use this at work to share amongst many users scattered throughout the office. While there are some connection issues every once and awhile. It does what we need it to very well. Also worth checking out are the many available web-apps at 37 folders to share around the office
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I never knew that adding the ability to right click cells and manage borders to software would make it threaten competitors.
- aburd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If people don't want their data stored on Google's servers that is their decision. Most people that use this aren't going to care though. If I want to set up a group's tennis schedule on Google Spreadsheets, I'm not going to be concerned with Google having access to that information. Most non-business spreadsheet users could move to Google Spreadsheets and not notice the difference between that experience and Excel. That isn't to say that the more hardcore business Excel users wouldn't notice the difference, but my mom just wants a place to balance her checkbook and make social schedules. For that, Google Spreadsheets is really all you need.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tip: If you are getting your normal right click menu obscuring the google menu, use the middle mouse button. Works a treat!
- Ventuvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you hate it so, don't use it. And for that matter - don't comment unless you have something useful to say. It's useless users like you that make idiot users like you think what you just wasted everybody's time with.
- tgone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Web-based apps aren't the best solution for everything. There are situations where you need an app to work offline - independent of a web browser. What Google should really do is create a stand-alone app that integrates with the web but isn't web-based.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most people still use IE while there are superior alternatives.....ha. Firefox is merely more secure.
- panic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3zone, I agree about the advertiser thing, it could end up being pretty evil. I noticed recently that the new Hotmail beta thing has custom right click menu and I thought they did a good job of implementing that.
- geekfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2browser right clicking capabilities for the web page is a absolutely required peice of UI functionality if desktop app functionality levels are to be achieved in web tools. However there is a conflict between the actual browser context menu (the outer app) and the web menu (inner app), some in the community are adamant that the outer app should own the context menu others vice versa.
perhaps the solution in say Firefox could be a config option to toggle the browser/doc right click between alt-RC and RC, then the user could choose which way they like. - animeshpathak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, for cells with URLs, now a small "open link" box appears, which you can click. Really useful when you have long URLs in your spreadsheets [house/car/roommate hunting, for example]
The chat feature is also cool, whereby you can chat with other collaborators, if they are on-line. - chestnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Better, but still has a way to go. Online storage is, of course, an issue. But, anything that can soften Microsoft is good.
- Jacknut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Excel for sophisticated analysis that is best done on a desktop.
However, when I'm conferencing with exectives, I use Google Spreadsheets to walk them through what-if scenarios.
Upshot: They both have their place and actually complement each other quite nicely. - dgolding, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Excel is hella-complex. Google Spreadsheet has a LONG way to go. Especially when MS rolls out Hosted Excel....Love or hate MS, they make very nice Office software. Its not a matter of a monopoly - in terms of Word, Excel, Powerpoint - the best software won the day. GSheet is fine for the home user, but NOT for the pro.
- randhirreddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem of taking ur Files along with u, will be solved with GDrive. This has been a major issue for me too, using Writely.
- alassiry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1collaboration and availability everywhere is a key feature... you could use it for data only, and whenever you need more advanced excel stuff download your spreadsheet and create an excel spreadsheet that links to your data (could contain charts, pivots, solver, macros, ...etc.) but the data will always be in your spreadsheet.
Now if somebody comes up with an add-in for excel that allows "external data" from google spreadsheets that would make my day!!! - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7They're going for the 'die laughing' approach.
- zone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I haven't seen any website replacing the context menues in a long time. I hope "advertisers" don't find any new use to it, they are just plain annoying in general (tho, of course you can block them in firefox, but that would left google out too).
- brentdanley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many of you seem to have a one or the other mentality. Microsoft is clearly the king of spreadsheets with Excel. Google spreadsheets is clearly not Excel. It is true that most people don't use Excel macros or pivot tables or charts or many of the other useful features. There's plenty of reasons people will stick with the almighty and powerful Excel. However, there are also many people that don't need the feature set of Excel and would prefer this product. The beauty is that there is a choice. I think many people will use both.
Microsoft's dominance is not in jeopardy. However, their market share may be. If that is the case we all win. Most people still use IE while there are superior alternatives. Firefox continues to erode their market share and cause them panic. Microsoft won't take these threats lying down and because of that we'll have better and more choice. - caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I use it to keep some lists and things like that...
- Darq1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Adsense
- thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yahoo's mail thing has right click stuff, which i kind of liked. too bad it makes all of firefox stop what it's doing until it's totally loaded.. can't deal with that.
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