Using Google Spreadsheets
Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
In an earlier post I mentioned Google Spreadsheets. I decided to use this web app for a fairly detailed spreadsheet recently. My initial comments are:
The good…
- The web-app is fairly responsive and you can easily and quickly update a spreadsheet. Navigation within a spreadsheet is fairly snappy.
- Smaller spreadsheets load quickly from the Google site. Smaller spreadsheets also load quickly from your local machine.
- To format a cell, change the font, and create a function is very initiative and easy.
- Spreadsheet navigation is quick, easy, and initiative.
- It’s very easy to share a file to collaborate on a spreadsheet.
The bad…
- Maybe this is a Mac problem, however I couldn’t see a cursor when editing a cell. This makes it very difficult to edit a function, especially very complicated functions.
- Uploading a file of any significance size takes loooooooooonnnnng. I have a 6Mbps connection. It’s still very slow. It’s not really practical to work like this.
- Ok, so you developed an elaborate spreadsheet and now you want to print it. Well, the printing functions are VERY limited in this version. The only way to print a spreadsheet is to render it in HTML and then to print the web page. Not the most powerful way to print. The rendering is also very bad.
Current assessment: Don’t delete your Microsoft Excel application just yet!
I would like to hear about your experiences with Google Spreadsheets.
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