title: Google spreadsheets
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2006/06/google-spreadsheets/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 183
date: 2006/06/08 10:05:56
created_gmt: 2006/06/08 15:05:56
comment_status: open
slug: google-spreadsheets

So Google launched its [spreadsheets](http://spreadsheets.google.com/), I managedto getmy invitation and they are pretty sweet. Same as [editgrid](http://www.editgrid.com/), [irows](http://www.irows.com/), [numsum](http://www.numsum.com/) 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