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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Why your organization should be using open document standards
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Category: Technology
Tags: Ecma, Excel, ISO, open, opendocument, opensource, spreadsheet, standard, Word
EditGrid betas Excel plugin
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
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 […]
Category: Technology
Tags: EditGrid, Excel, plugin, SaaS, software, spreadsheet, web 2.0
EditGrid User Survey response
October 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments
EditGrid, the online spreadsheet app that mimics Excel in format and functionality, sent me a survey a week ago through email. The survey sought my thoughts on the following questions: Use Cases: What are you using EditGrid for? Features: What new features do you desire the most? Usability: How can we present our features better to […]
Category: Web
Tags: EditGrid, SaaS, spreadsheet, survey, user, web 2.0
Spreadsheets: My thoughts on EditGrid
September 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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 […]
Category: Web
Tags: design, EditGrid, Excel, Google, software, spreadsheet, usability
Google continues to improve Spreadsheet
July 16th, 2006 · 3 Comments
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 […]
Category: Web
Tags: Excel, Google, SaaS, software, spreadsheet

