Tag: GOOGLESPREADSHEETS

Toying with spreadsheets is just about the most mundane office work you can possibly do these days, and it's a world that is dominated by Microsoft Excel. Google's fairly basic offering, Spreadsheets, has just been bestowed with yet another reason to eschew Excel: Filtering. Filtering allows you to instantly deep dive into both large or small amounts of data in ways which would take hours if ...

A new chart editor is now available for the spreadsheet tool inside Google Docs, along with some new chart types to choose from. The most noteworthy feature additions to the chart editor are that it now automatically recommends chart types based on the data, matches data labels and headers, automatically selects colors, gives you more control over imagery, has advanced visualizations and a ...

One of Gmail's handiest features has long been its ability to open a large variety of attachments with its "View as HTML" option. Now Google has taken it one logical step futher with an "Open in Google Spreadsheets" option when you receive an Excel file as an attachment. I checked it out and found it to be pretty convenient. While Gmail's HTML view is occasionally lacking, Google Spreadsheets is ...

Every time Google launches (or buys) a cool new product, I'm a little nervous that that's the last thing we'll hear about it., i.e. Google will just leave it to gather dust. That was definitely my fear after the launch of Google Spreadsheets, but I'm happy to report that those fear appear to be unfounded. ZDNet blogger Garett Rogers is reporting that Google has rolled out a new version of ...

Back in March Google turned some heads with its purchase of Writely, a collaborative web-based word processor. Yesterday it made waves again with Google Spreadsheets, a web-based app whose purpose isn't necessary to explain. Google Spreadsheets is no Excel-killer by any means, but from the ten minutes or so of poking around I've done, it seems a lot nicer than any of its web-based competition ...