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by gruseom 4666 days ago
What do you think is needed in order to make a good web-based spreadsheet? Where do you think Google falls down at it?

(I work on spreadsheets and find this very interesting.)

1 comments

They fail in their importXML limit to 50 queries They fail in their limited feature sets that make it not a true Excel replacement They fail in their inability to perfectly past data from Excel

I still use the Google spreadsheets all the time, but as a quick and dirty version of excel with importXML ability