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  1. #1
    Harlan Grove
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    Google Spreadsheet

    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.


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    It's a work in progress. Give it some time, I think it will be OK
    Google is your best friend!

  3. #3
    Don Guillett
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    Re: Google Spreadsheet

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

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    "Harlan Grove" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > 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.
    >




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    Pretty much, From what I have heard, some gets it within hours, I got it overnight, YMMV

  5. #5
    Don Guillett
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    Re: Google Spreadsheet

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

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    > Pretty much, From what I have heard, some gets it within hours, I got
    > it overnight, YMMV
    >
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  6. #6
    Jim Cone
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    Re: Google Spreadsheet

    Don,
    I signed up yesterday and have heard nothing.
    Enrollment is limited, so I assume they are making
    random assignments.
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    "Don Guillett"
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    I signed up a couple of days ago and have heard nothing since.
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  7. #7
    Harlan Grove
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    Re: Google Spreadsheet

    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.


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