Comments on: Suggest me some features to compare online spreadsheets

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:27:38 +0000

Very informative site. Successful structure.2

By: Sudar

Sudar — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:54:13 +0000

Not a problem Tony.

Cheers,
Sudar

By: Night Dreaming (by Sudar) » Online Spreadsheets comparison

Night Dreaming (by Sudar) » Online Spreadsheets comparison — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:49:30 +0000

[...] As I promised earlier, here is the result of my comparison of various online spreadsheet services. I compared the services based on the following criteria. [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:14:01 +0000

Sudar,

Thanks so much!

By: Sudar

Sudar — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:23:04 +0000

Yuvi,

You know every time there is a competition it is the user who is going to get benefited because in order to over their competitor every company will throw away lot of new features or will enhance the existing ones and will try to bring out their very best.

So letâ??s hope that the competition gives us some more new features.

By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:59:00 +0000

Yep. As of now, Online Spreadsheets blow away Excel for Collaboration. Collaborating in Excel outside of a LAN is messy at best. But, guess what? Microsoft thrives with loadso heavy Competietion. Look at what Firefox did to IE7. So, the new flurry of online Spreadsheets/Word Processors would mean new/better features to Excel/Word. I guess maybe in the next release, or just even with an addon, somebody’ll get Collaboration great with Excel. Collaboration over the Web over HTTP. Omnidrive[omnidrive.com] looks to do that, but it’s still in Private Beta…….

Anyway, I’m just a Microsoft Fanboy;)

By: Sudar

Sudar — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:26:32 +0000

Yuvi.

Nice list, will add those features to my list.

As you said, there are situations where online spreadsheets are not appropriate / very difficult to use and people will continue to use traditional spreadsheets for that.

But on the other hand there are situations where in which using an online spreadsheet is really an advantage, especially when it requires collaboration.

Even though online spreadsheets may not replace traditional spreadsheets completely (may for next couple of years) they will have major inroads into the market share of traditional spreadsheets and itâ??s very sure that they are going to loose their monopoly.

By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:51:54 +0000

Well,
1. Save-As
2. Charts
3. Integration with Word Processors
4. Save to Disk
5. Context Menus
6. Printing Support

Well, it maybe just me, but I think/guess that Online Spreadsheets fill the niche market for shared spreadsheets : Rather than create an Excel Sheet and put it over the web and have hell lotsa trouble collaborating on it, we can use online Spreadsheets. But, for hardcore stuff, like for example you know na our School class Wise Marksheets are done using Excel. And, they won’t even think of using Online Spreadsheets for that…

By: Sudar

Sudar — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:07:08 +0000

Hi Tony,

I will try to include EditGrid also in my comparison.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:33:11 +0000

Hi! Will you include EditGrid also? I've already made a comparison between it and google spreadsheet here: http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/pkchan/EditGrid_v._Google, which may give you some info.

By: Sudar

Sudar — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:53:59 +0000

Hi Yoah,

Thatâ??s indeed a huge list and will be definitely useful in my comparison.
I have also fixed the link to iRows in the article and should work fine now.
BTW are you associated with iRows? (Just out of curiosity I am asking this)

By: Yoah Bar-David

Yoah Bar-David — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:58:11 +0000

And another note, the irows link on the page does not point to iRows. Can you fix this?

By: Yoah Bar-David

Yoah Bar-David — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:57:30 +0000

Here are a few ideas for comparison: http://www.irows.com/View?id=20124
In addition, add speed, style, integration with other sites (aka mashups) etc

By: Sudar

Sudar — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:23:11 +0000

Hi Ramesh,

Thanks for the feature list

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:48:02 +0000

1. Fill Series… I Cant work without that.
2. Responsiveness … Man zoho and GSS (Google Spred Sheet) takes atleast a second to update the cell values
3. UI and customization

By: blogods.info

blogods.info — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:11:03 +0000