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Re:Make up your own rules of probability by joelhaus on Monday January 31, 2011 @03:55PM (#2163131)
Totally agree, hopefully MS will get on the ball one day and improve the editing features. Limited syntax highlighting and an awkward commenting tool are available, but mostly unusable.

Google Spreadsheets is catching up fast (and has even surpassed Excel in quite a few areas), I'm hoping that this motivates MS to make more improvements.

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Re:Make up your own rules of probability by shadowfox on Monday January 31, 2011 @04:57PM (#2163370)
I am not a serious spreadsheet user. But I am curious. In what areas have Google Spreadsheets surpassed Excel? (Collaboration tools is probably one)
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Re:Make up your own rules of probability by joelhaus on Monday January 31, 2011 @05:33PM (#2163473)
Correct, collaboration is much better (realtime editing/chat/cloud storage and sharing).

Admittedly, Excel has a smoother editing experience (which is the real issue here) and is probably better suited for more resource heavy tasks, but Google Spreadsheets excels [intentional] in the following areas:

API -- http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/

Scripts/Templates -- http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/

Forms -- http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

External data functions -- http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Revision History --

Some of this might be achievable in Excel, but it's not integrated as well and requires much more wrangling (e.g. VB scripts).

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