I got access to Google Spreadsheets this morning, shortly after I wrote up my quick take based on the screenshots on Google's site. After using Google Spreadsheets, some pros and cons stand out.

To convert an Excel file to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, you need to upload the Excel file to Google Drive. Once you've uploaded the Excel file to Google Drive, you can save it as a Sheets file. You ...

Google Sheets is the company's cloud-based spreadsheet app that's available for Android phones, iPhones, Windows computers, ...

Spreadsheets, which are similar to databases, can help you visualize and manage data entities and values that make up your company's customer information repository. If that information doesn't reside ...

Manually sifting through a giant Google Sheets file isn't efficient. A built-in search function can look through all your open documents in seconds. In addition to Google's Find function, there are ...

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Workplace visualization tools make the world go round, and will definitely liven up your before-lunch presentation. If you’ve got hard numbers to display to the masses, or graph-scribed projections ...

Google Sheets has the power to calculate the number of days between two dates, regardless of the date format entered. The only requirement is consistency between manually typed dates and the ...

Nick Carr offers his assessment of Google's evolving Office plan. He posits that Spreadsheets makes Excel more valuable because is provides a simple Web interface to Microsoft's Office spreadsheet--it ...

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