trying to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets as fulltime replacement for Microsoft/Open Office on my secondary computer, I’m running into all sorts of shortcomings every day. opening an excel-spreadsheet containing several sub-sheets (but otherwise quite barebones) lead me to the error-message pictured below … I wonder why it’s limited to 20 sheets in particular, [...]
Google just released an API for their Spreadsheets product as part of the larger Google Data APIs (“GData”), which also allow 3rd parties to access Calendar, Base, Blogger and Code Search. the API supports read/write-access to existing documents, though – according to Google Blogoscoped – it’s not possible to create new spreadsheets (yet).
Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogscoped reports the recent integration of Google Spreadsheets into Gmail. when receiving xls-attachments, Gmail users are now given a direct link to open such files in Google Spreadsheets. a similar feature for Word-documents / Google Docs (ex Writely) is still missing but almost certain to follow soon.
Google finally integrated Writely (acquired in march 2006) and Google Spreadsheets in what would probably become Google Office at some point – Google Docs & Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com). supplementing those Google Apps released a few weeks ago, the online office suite is now almost complete, the last piece of the puzzle still missing [...]
earlier today, google labs started accepting applications for their public-but-limited beta of google spreadsheets (register for the beta now, accounts will be granted first-come, first-serve).
the product-tour highlights some promising features, f.e. microsoft excel-import & -export abilities (it seems unclear to me, how feature-complete this can/will be, I bet that it won’t be able to handle [...]