{"id":1112,"date":"2006-06-07T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2006-06-07T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:40:52","slug":"google-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Google Spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier <a id=\"p1111\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1111\" title=\"Google Spreadsheet\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/gs_preadsheets.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Google Spreadsheet\" \/><\/a>this day, I received an invitation to test drive <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\">Google Spreadsheets<\/a> (Note: Google seems to be stuck in a space-time continuum today). I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m allowed to post screenshots but, for what it is intended to do it&#8217;s doing an extremely good job. Not bad at all.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Importing both (standard, no fizzle-frizzle) Excel and CSV files works without problems.\n<\/li>\n<li>Exporting to above formats works good.\n<\/li>\n<li>There are hardly any formatting options (I was looking for &#8216;bordering&#8217;), but once again, this is not something you need when you make spreadsheets.\n<\/li>\n<li>One of the most promising features (which is something I couldn&#8217;t test) is the sharing of spreadsheets with other GMail users. <em>Instantly<\/em>. That&#8217;s what Google promises. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if they can live up to that.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, not too bad at all. What&#8217;s next? Online charts (but then that&#8217;s something they probably already do with &#8216;Google Analytics&#8217;)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this day, I received an invitation to test drive Google Spreadsheets (Note: Google seems to be stuck in a space-time continuum today). I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m allowed to post screenshots but, for what it is intended to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}