{"id":176,"date":"2006-06-08T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/google-spreadsheets-pretty-cool\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T15:36:47","slug":"google-spreadsheets-pretty-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/google-spreadsheets-pretty-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Spreadsheets, pretty cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some buzz about googles launch of their first &quot;office-esque&quot; product.\u00a0 So, I signed up to get a preview to see what all the fuss is about.\u00a0 To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\">Google Spreadsheets<\/a> is a browser based spreadsheet and collaboration tool.\u00a0 You make, share, save, edit your spreadsheets in a web browser.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"356\" style=\"margin:5px;\" width=\"450\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/blog-%202006-%2008-%2008-%2034-%2051.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn&#8217;t a super light grid based notepad; it&#8217;s a real spreadsheet with formulas to do real work:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"343\" style=\"margin:5px;\" width=\"450\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/blog-%202006-%2008-%2008-%2032-%2030.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can highlight ranges of cells, just like good ole Excel:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"212\" style=\"margin:5px;\" width=\"363\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/blog-%202006-%2008-%2008-%2036-%2013.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Overall, I was quite happy with the experience and think it will definitely be useful for individuals and SMBs.\u00a0 I ponder,<a href=\"http:\/\/dondodge.typepad.com\/the_next_big_thing\/2006\/06\/google_competin.html\"> like others<\/a>, how useful it will be in big corporate environments BUT don&#8217;t really think of it as a competitor to star office\/open office.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>So when are Pivot Tables\/Pivot Charts arriving&#8230; now THAT would be awesome! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some buzz about googles launch of their first &quot;office-esque&quot; product.\u00a0 So, I signed up to get a preview to see what all the fuss is about.\u00a0 To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the application. Google Spreadsheets is a browser based spreadsheet and collaboration tool.\u00a0 You make, share, save, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}