Google spreadsheets

So Google launched its spreadsheets, I managedto getmy invitation and they are pretty sweet. Same as editgrid, irows, numsum and others out there… they are all sweet :P

Cool stuff:

  • It has most of the functions you’d probably need.
  • Ctrl+Key copy, cut, paste, bold, underline, italic.
  • Ctrl + arrow navigation and Ctrl+Shift support to move across written cells.
  • Multiple sheet support
  • Built in colaboration chat!
  • Undo/Redo

Some premature observations:

  • No ODF export/import?! (it should be a matter of time)
  • When inserting a formula “=sum(” you have to click the referenced cell, you can’t use the arrow to move to it, cause you are focused inside a textfield so the arrows will move the cursor inside the function name “=su|m(, which sucks.”
  • No borders. You canadd background and foreground colorsto your cells, but there are still no borders, which are quite important to differentiate results from data
  • Horrible URLs
  • Slow javascript, I didn’t feel so much lag on editgrid
  • Horizontal cell merge, but now vertical merge
  • No graphs :P
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