Jun 7

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 thatgoogle_spread_00.gif 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


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3 Responses to “Google spreadsheets”

  1. Tony Says:

    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?

  2. Vlad Says:

    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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