Google spreadsheets
posted by: Vlad Akilov
Google has yet launched another of their web products, but not officially. It’s the google spreadsheets. An Ajax based spreadsheets, which isn’t available to the general public yet, but you can try out if you ask for an invitation to try it out. For now their aren’t that
many features however you can open up and save as an excel file or, import CSV, XLS, and HTML formats. You can have multiple people share a particular file, and chat with them through google’s services, and they can change the file and update certain things while still communicating in the chat feature.However, if you think google is the only company providing an Ajax based online spreadsheets, you are wrong, because there are quite a few of them. Some include numsum, ZohoSheet, iRows, Editgrid, Numbler, to name a few.
Screenshots below
June 8th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Hi! This is Tony from Team and Concepts.
Alongside of your mentioned products, there’s also EditGrid and Numbler which you
may wish to put on the list. They both incorporate real-time-update which distinguishes themselves from the others, long before google spreadsheet has implemented it.
Give a try?
June 8th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Hey, Tony, those are some good looking online alternatives to spreadsheets. You should also check out thinkfree.com, which is a whole online suite alternative to MS Office, and its all for free!
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