Microsoft has the enter­prise market cornered with its Office produc­tivity suite. Skill with Outlook, Excel and Word is pretty much required in the corporate world. As a result, most companies have signif­icant data tied up in the propri­etary binary file formats doc and xls. This is not to mention all the web-based software designed for […]

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As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do my work […]

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From a reader comes news that EditGrid has launched a private beta for an Excel plugin for offline work on spread­sheets. Pretty cool, as Mashable explains: As there are several levels of integration, the whole of the integration is rather seamless — it takes no time to load sheets from EditGrid to Excel, and you […]

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I recently tried out EditGrid, in response to a post by Dennis on recent enhance­ments. I had already been using Google Spread­sheets a little bit, but not too much, because, quite frankly, it just wasn’t all that intuitive. I consider myself a fairly advanced Excel user, and Google Spread­sheets just didn’t have the same level […]

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Last week Google released an update for their Spread­sheet web app, and it shows they’re continuing to improve the product. This is a good thing, as I previ­ously wasn’t too impressed. Now you can right-click on cells and select basic options from a context menu such as cut, copy and paste, and insert and delete […]

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