A first look: Google’s beta spreadsheet application
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As you can see — the Google spreadsheet looks like any other spreadsheet. The only difference is that the Google spreadsheet has more of a “on the Web” feel.
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You can save spreadsheets to a Google location or to you local or network hard drive.
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The Google spreadsheet has the normal sorting features.
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The number of formulas and functions supported by the Google spreadsheet is nearly as many as you will find in Excel. You would be hard pressed to name a function that is not available.
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You can import an existing Excel spreadsheet directly into the Google app. However, in my test, the Depreciation Spreadsheet I created and published last year on TechRepbulic would not load.
You can share spreadsheets during the beta, but only to people with existing gmail accounts.
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This is a simple example spreadsheet I created for this gallery. The Gross Margin and the Net Income cells are calculated with a simple subtraction formula. The 6 Months column is calculated with the sum(a:b) function.
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I was able to save my example spreadsheet to my network drive.
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I was able to open that saved example spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel — it looks like I made it in Excel.
