Google Spreadsheets – Updated with new features
written on Sep.08, 2006
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.

September 8th, 2006 on 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!
September 8th, 2006 on 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.
September 8th, 2006 on 8:12 pm
Thanks for sharing!
September 16th, 2006 on 2:24 am
Hi to all,
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Regards,
richard
October 11th, 2006 on 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.
January 1st, 2007 on 6:19 pm
Richard, the http://www.lipotoid.com/iMashGSS/iMashGSSB1.exe link is not working