Google Spreadsheets Sign Up Page
The sign up page for Google Spreadsheets is live! You can only enter your email address for an invite, but it is a start.
There’s also a sneak peek tour. Here are the screenshots:
Hat-tip: Jason
Here are some notes I took from the privacy policy:
- Google Spreadsheets stores previous versions of your documents.
- Chat sessions are archived, and can be shared.
And from the Help Center:
- Spreadsheets requires IE6/FF1.07+, and JavaScript enabled
- You can click Save As to save a local copy to your hard drive.
- Autosave times are always in Pacific Standard Time (the GMT of the internet :-))
- They are hoping to add graphs and macros in the future
- There are keyboard shortcuts, including CTRL+B, CTRL+I, CTRL+U, CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V. Also, F2 shows a cell’s formula and F4 anchors a cell. There are many other undocumented shortcuts.
- You may create up to 100 spreadsheets, each of which may contain up to 20 tabs, 50,000 cells, 256 columns or 10,000 rows, whichever comes first. Imports of XLS and CSV files are limited to 400k in size.
- Spreadsheets supports over 200 formulas.
- You can also do a lot of formatting for your data, such as bold, underline, italics, font color, cell color, font family, and font size. You can also change your cell alignment, merge cells, wrap text, insert or delete rows and columns.
- To print, you click Get HTML in the File menu. You can save that page, or print it.
- You will be able to invite others for collaboration, just like Writely, as long as they have a Google Account.
- You can specify a spreadsheet as private or public, and they are private by default.
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Hope you would like to visit www.zohosheet.com , an online spreadsheet app. It supports
Almost all formulae
Charting
Collaboration and Tagging
Multiple Sheets
Regards,
Segu
Comment by Segu | June 6, 2006
Interesting.
I wonder how this will compete with ajaxXLS from Michael Robertson. Right now ajaxXLS’ main function is viewing, but editing is available in a beta format.
’tis going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. I’ve signed up.
Comment by Ciaran | June 6, 2006
Wasn’t Michael Robertson behind AjaxWrite — which wasn’t even an Ajax-based app — or was he just promoting because he saw it and thought it looked cool?
Comment by Stu | June 6, 2006
I think he was behind it, but not sure.
And yes, I’m totally with you on the thing about it not being Ajax-based. That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it.
Comment by Ciaran | June 6, 2006
Yeah, just checked out ajaxXLS, and it’s not Ajax-based either, it’s built upon XUL.
Hey Nathan, hook a brother up with a GSpreadsheet invite when you get one, will ya? Want to compare with Zoho and iRows.
Comment by Stu | June 6, 2006
Erm, nevermind, Nathan. I just noticed that I got an invite (after requesting one from the Google Spreadsheets page) a couple of hours ago at this account.
The weird thing is, this is my secondary Gmail account, and I requested an invite a couple of hours earlier with my primary than I did with this one. And my primary is probably used 15 times more often, has 7 times the amount of email (going by MB used), and I’ve owned my primary account since Gmail was first handing out invites a couple of years ago.
I’m curious why they would pass over my main account to send an invite to an account I don’t use nearly as often. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I was using Firefox when I requested an invite for my primary account, but when I requested an invite a couple of hours later for my secondary account, I was using IE7. Maybe they’re allotting invites by browser to ensure a good mix of browsers during this early testing phase. Odd.
Comment by Stu | June 6, 2006
I just tried using the spreadsheet for a simple accounting task and it was painstakingly slow. There seems to be no way to drag the contents of a cell to other cells and it was all just very very slow. I am sure this will improve with time but in its current state it is simply not viable.
Comment by FofR | June 7, 2006
Google Spreadsheets hands-on e riflessioni
Google Spreadsheets Launches : ” Another week, another Google product launches.
Trackback by Fed's Bolsoblog | June 7, 2006
It’s real funny. I sent inquiry to registration.
Comment by ~Bear'Z Blog~ | June 8, 2006
Hi! Have you seen EditGrid also?
There’s a comparison between it and google spreadsheet here:
http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/pkchan/EditGrid_v._Google.
You may wish to take a look!
Comment by Tony | June 8, 2006
Thanks for nice and actual info’ Be the Best!
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