This new Google Labs Free Web-based spreadsheet is something pretty nifty if you are a mobile user or you need to open an Excel from cyber cafes. Another website that offers this service is ThinkFree which can also open Microsoft Word and Powerpoints online. The new Google Labs service starts 9am on Tuesday USA Eastern Time.
Google Google plans today to offer a free Web-based spreadsheet to a limited number of users through Google Labs. The program will be called Google Spreadsheets. In its initial form, it can read and write Microsoft Excel files, but it lacks that program's depth of features. It will however make use of some of Google's other software, such as Google Talk, for online collaboration.
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