Comments on: MyFive: Google Spreadsheet Functions You Won’t Find in Microsoft Office

By: Rudra Mani Sharma

Rudra Mani Sharma — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:20:12 +0000

Hi,

I was surprised to see the functions of google spreadsheet. As an excel user I always preferred excel over google but now I’ve started thinking seriously about latter. I was struggling with sort function but it is quite clear after reading your post. Thanks a lot..

I am also struggling with import range function can u pls help me?

Thanks in advance

With Regards
Rudra Mani Sharma

By: steve

steve — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:43:39 +0000

They are not kidding. They know the difference between a function that can be used as formula in a cell and an operation that must be performed by clicking with your mouse. But it seems you don’t.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:33:22 +0000

Google kicks Microsoft’s @ss with easy to use and powerful tools that all of us use everday and some of you people are going to whine that Microsoft has it all??? Are you serious? How much did you pay Google this year? People are nuts.

By: jaimie

jaimie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:00:37 +0000

hey!!!!!!!!

im looking for the function of leaves
where is it?????????????????

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:02:18 +0000

CoryC wrote:

In Excel you can import data from the web. I think Excel refers to it as a “Web Method” (I think..it’s been a while). For a former employer I used that feature to import the companies stock price.

Yes, Excel does let you grab data from the Web, and I've actually used that before. It could be tedious to work with though on some websites, and like Google's importHTML function it pretty much requires that the website use tables to store the data.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:37:05 +0000

fred zhang wrote:

Data Sort, lol are you kidding. You really don’t know Office or even Excel.

We realize that you can manually sort data in Excel, but what function in Office will automatically resort data for you without using any VBA? If I’m missing something, I’d love to know. I’m not sure if you read the section on Data Sort and how it works in Google Docs, but with my extensive experience using Excel, I’ve never found a feature that works like this.

Steve wrote:

Hehe, and how many features exists in MS Office, you won’t find in Google Spreadsheet? I think, 5 would not be engogh…

That’s true, but from a usability standpoint, not many people are going to use a majority of the features found in Office. The functions we mentioned today found in Google Docs are ones that a majority of users could use — they try to appeal to the masses.

By: CoryC

CoryC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:17:52 +0000

I think the issue with Excel is that there are so many features that it takes a true pro to really understand all of what it offers.

When Microsoft was planning for Office 2007 their research found that 90% of the features that people wanted already existed! That’s what lead to the overhaul of the toolbar and the reason the ribbon was developed.

By: CoryC

CoryC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:15:06 +0000

In Excel you can import data from the web. I think Excel refers to it as a “Web Method” (I think..it’s been a while). For a former employer I used that feature to import the companies stock price.

By: Ola

Ola — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:07:25 +0000

Three Google functions worth mentioning are the =ARRAYFORMULA(), =CONTINUE() and =EXPAND() function.
[documents.google.com]

More: [groups.google.com]

By: Ola

Ola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:21:13 +0000

Google have a few very good functions which Excel don’t have. I have help many people over the years in different forums how to do automatic sorting, finding unique numbers etc. Many of those questions involve long and complicated Array formulas (Ctrl+Shift+Enter). So I like Googles new functions and I hope Excel will follow.

A few online spreadsheets offer more formulas than Microsoft. I made a comparison a year ago. Here was the result:
[dailydoseofexcel.com]