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Google Spreadsheets - Updated with new features

September 8, 2006 at 4:40 pm

Google Spreadsheets has been updated with some new features. Here’s a summary of the most important changes:

  • You can let anyone view (as long as they have a Google account) without inviting them
  • Easier URLs for your spreadsheets to share
  • Get list of people to invite from Gmail/Google Calendar
  • Print feature
  • PDF Export
  • Open Document Format support (ODF)
  • Format cells using more currency symbols and additional formats
  • More lines of text in each cells
  • Merge Cells now on multiple rows at one once
  • Larger file sizes imported
  • New Function Dialogbox and help page
  • Un-saved spreadsheet warning

I really like Google Spreadsheets but before they become the leader in Web Spreadsheets applications they have to make sure we get the feature to create charts and diagrams.

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Dan

Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

Thanks for leaving a comment on my site about this post.

I use Google for my budget spreadsheet that I share with my wife and was not aware of the new changes even though I just logged into it yesterday.

Thanks!

anupcs

Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 7:30 pm

Didn’t know about this until you posted a comment on our site. The PDF export option is one that’d be most useful for me, I think.

Robert Sanzalone

Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 8:12 pm

Thanks for sharing!

Richard

Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 2:24 am

Hi to all,

Desktop Application:
Name: ‘iMashGSS’ - Mashing Up Google’s SpreadSheets and Google’s Writely.

I’ve just completed a beta version of a desktop toolbar
for a user to have Google’s SpreadSheets and Google’s
Writely quickly available while having a primary desktop application or a web browser current being viewed together in a single viewing.

Absolutely No Spyware, Adware, Metric gatherings of
anykind or intrusive collections made by this beta application ‘iMashGSS’.

Dowload Link:
http://www.lipotoid.com/iMashGSS/iMashGSSB1.exe

Regards,
richard

roy

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pm

Google has merged Writely and Spreadsheets. Both URLS redirect you to http://docs.google.com. The document interface now matches the spreadsheet interface.

Guy

Monday, January 1st, 2007 at 6:19 pm

Richard, the http://www.lipotoid.com/iMashGSS/iMashGSSB1.exe link is not working

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