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 forContinue reading “Why your organization should be using open document standards”
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Preview Microsoft Office 2007 in the browser
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 workContinue reading “Preview Microsoft Office 2007 in the browser”
EditGrid betas Excel plugin
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 youContinue reading “EditGrid betas Excel plugin”
Spreadsheets: My thoughts on EditGrid
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 levelContinue reading “Spreadsheets: My thoughts on EditGrid”
Google continues to improve Spreadsheet
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 deleteContinue reading “Google continues to improve Spreadsheet”