Last week we wrote about several functions in Google Spreadsheets that you wouldn't find in Microsoft Office. Continuing along those same lines, today online spreadsheet service EditGrid introduced what they're calling "Data on Demand."

EditGrid posted their latest Newsletter which explains what Data on Demand is all about. They say:

With the trend of more and more data being made available online and through web services we see data on demand as a

Today we're taking a look at Google Spreadsheet Functions you won't find in Microsoft Office. If you haven't played around with Google Docs before, you probably haven't realized the long list of functions that are available. We'll be covering the following functions: Import Feed, Google Finance, Google Look-up, Import HTML, and Data Sort.

Before we get started, we wanted to mention that there aren't really functions that can do things like this in Microsoft Office, but

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We knew it was coming, but it's not even close to everything we were hoping it would be. Google announced just a short while ago that Google Docs users could begin uploading, storing, and reading PDF's on their Google account. It's nothing fancy, and for the most part it does the basic things you would expect from an online PDF

For those of you who tend to save documents as PDF's frequently, you may be interested to know that it looks as though Google is planning to add a PDF service to their collection of online office applications. Currently they offer Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, so a PDF service would fit in nicely.

So far Google has yet to make any official announcement or confirm the suspicions, however there are a couple of clues that

Zoho has just added a feature to Zoho Writer that while may not seem like anything big, will be really helpful to a select group of people. What they've done is added the option for users to import documents from Google Docs to Zoho Writer. The group of people who this will be really helpful to is those who started using Google Documents at one point or another but now use Zoho. Additionally, for

Google Docs just added what I consider to be a feature that is needed to help bridge the gap between desktop and online word processing. They added a page view (as expected) that is typical of any desktop word processor, and it's almost like getting a live print preview while you work. To access the new setting go to the View menu, and

Google actually made an interesting move yesterday in terms of how people can collaborate on the spreadsheets they create. If you take a look at the Share tab in one of your Google Spreadsheets you'll notice a new option towards the bottom that's new. With it you can share a spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone and everyone which, as Google OS points