Spreadsheet Applications
ajaxXLS
ajaxXLS, which is part of the comprehensive suite of applications provided by ajax13 is a simple spreadsheet viewer, complemented by an editor currently under development. It only runs with Firefox, but compatibility with Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org allows it to preserve all common cell formatting categories such as text styles, decimals, currencies, dates, and times, as well as formulas, backgrounds and borders from the original documents.
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EditGrid
EditGrid is an online spreadsheet service with real-time-update and extensive collaboration features. It offers about 80% of Microsoft Excel’s features, real-time collaboration capabilities, and power features for mashing up other applications. Personal users can register for free, and organisation users can enjoy additional account management and reporting features for an affordable pricing at $5 per user per month. It is also available on Salesforce.com AppExchange and Central Desktop.
Google Spreadsheets
Google Spreadsheets is part of the Google Apps offering, and provides a streamlined way to view and edit simple spreadsheets. It supports real-time update and chat, as well as import of existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
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Num Sum
Num Sum is a simple online spreadsheet editor that supports sharing, publishing, and syndication of spreadsheets, as well as posting to a blog. Unfortunately, Num Sum has not been updated since March 2006, therefore users looking for a long term solution should consider other alternatives.
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Numbler
Numbler is a simple online spreadsheet editor that supports sharing and real-time update of spreadsheets, with the ability to lock ranges of cells, and to reference cells from multiple sheets. Unfortunately, Numbler has not been updated since June 2006, therefore users looking for a long term solution should consider other alternatives.
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Sheetster
Sheetster is an online spreadsheet editor based on the ExtenXLS spreadsheet technology, an easy-to-use spreadsheet automation API that allows you to read, modify, and create spreadsheets from Java applications.
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ThinkFree Calc
ThinkFree Calc is probably the most advanced online spreadsheet editor currently available. As any other component of the powerful ThinkFree suite, ThinkFree Calc provides a Quick Edit mode built in AJAX, and a Power Edit mode built in Java. The Power Edit mode can be considered as a clone of Microsoft Excel 2003, minus macros and pivot tables. It provides the exact same features, and the same familiar user interface. ThinkFree Calc is also the only online spreadsheet editor that can be used for very large spreadsheets that contain tens or hundreds of thousands of cells.
wikiCalc
wikiCalc is an online spreadsheet editor developed by Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc, the very first spreadsheet editor. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki, with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to basic web server space accessed by FTP, or run on a server and be used with nothing more than a browser on the client. It is also integrated with Socialtext, one of the best enterprise wiki solutions currently available.
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Xcellery
Xcellery allows users to share and edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets online. Unlike other online spreadsheet editors we reviewed for this roundup, Xcellery doesn’t try to replace Microsoft Excel, but extends it, by allowing a single spreadsheet to be shared and synchronized across multiple users in real time. For users who do not have a copy of Microsoft Excel installed on their computer, Xcellery also provides a powerful browser-based AJAX editor. Xcellery is compatible with a wide range of features offered by Microsoft Excel, but currently does not provide support for charts.
Zoho Sheet
Zoho Sheet is one of the most powerful AJAX-based spreadsheet editors currently available. It is fully integrated with the comprehensive suite of applications offered by Zoho, supports real-time update, remote data embedding, as well as sharing, publishing, and syndication of spreadsheets.
