Google Spreadsheet and GooOS
Well I got on to the limited testers for Google spreadsheets. I wanted to try it out as I have a few work related logs which I manage that go around with me on a pen drive, and I thought what better than to have a web based solution.
I've been testing it out this morning and so far its more advanced than I thought it would be. The usual functions are there; bold,underline, copy, paste, formulas, multiple worksheet support, and you can even upload(open) you current .xls and .csv files. It also allows you to download all worksheets in a .xls format or download a single sheet in .csv and .html. One other nice feature which I think Excel doesnt have is autosave!
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Hi Andy,
I think the major benefit with this OLA (online application) comes when you working with others on the same spreadsheet. I tested it this morning using IE and FireFox via 2 separate Google accounts and it worked a treat, changing the data in one browser change the data in the other in real-time. You can also chat via the browsers similar to how you can in Gmail - neither i don't think are possible with say MSoffice/openoffice etc. I think that we shouldn't think about it as an alternative for 'excel' as such but an collaborative real-time spreadsheet editor.
As for the website being down... hmmm what if you have a flat battery on your laptop fro example, you then couldn't do any work, but with an online app - well you can just hop on any computer and away you go...
I think the major benefit with this OLA (online application) comes when you working with others on the same spreadsheet. I tested it this morning using IE and FireFox via 2 separate Google accounts and it worked a treat, changing the data in one browser change the data in the other in real-time. You can also chat via the browsers similar to how you can in Gmail - neither i don't think are possible with say MSoffice/openoffice etc. I think that we shouldn't think about it as an alternative for 'excel' as such but an collaborative real-time spreadsheet editor.
As for the website being down... hmmm what if you have a flat battery on your laptop fro example, you then couldn't do any work, but with an online app - well you can just hop on any computer and away you go...
We might be jumping the gun but we're already using this for collaborative to-do lists.
On a side note did you get my email with the screengrab of how your site renders
in Safari?
cheers, Joc
On a side note did you get my email with the screengrab of how your site renders
in Safari?
cheers, Joc
man, im tellin you what!
im so all over google spreadsheets for application project management and managing my scope of work docs there... you can make someone READ-only, or write... WOW!
great for collabo!
btw... first time i have found your blog, and i must say, great implementation of blogcfc and green/black with a classy look!
tough to pull off! cheers
im so all over google spreadsheets for application project management and managing my scope of work docs there... you can make someone READ-only, or write... WOW!
great for collabo!
btw... first time i have found your blog, and i must say, great implementation of blogcfc and green/black with a classy look!
tough to pull off! cheers
Take a look at http://zohosheet.com , an online spreadsheet app. with recent addition of features like Charting and MultipleSheets.
@Nick, good point about the laptop battery, but if its on a pen drive surely its just as available? :o)
@Joc, I got your email for somereason I've had no time to look into it. Plus i really wanna update to BlogCFC 5 so i'll do it with that. Do you mind holding on :o)
@Tony, cheers for the comment much appreciated!
@Segu, Zohosheet looks nice actually and for features it definately got them. The thing is that like an office app you'll want to do everything with one tool and i cant see why Google aren't gonna go down the Word processing route. Thats gonna be Zohosheets downfall.
@Joc, I got your email for somereason I've had no time to look into it. Plus i really wanna update to BlogCFC 5 so i'll do it with that. Do you mind holding on :o)
@Tony, cheers for the comment much appreciated!
@Segu, Zohosheet looks nice actually and for features it definately got them. The thing is that like an office app you'll want to do everything with one tool and i cant see why Google aren't gonna go down the Word processing route. Thats gonna be Zohosheets downfall.
