Public Beta 13 (rev 4166) is the last of a series of releases in the current phase of development, where commonly used spreadsheet functionalities have been gradually rolled out, with the goal of developing a usable and basic spreadsheet online, alongside unique online spreadsheet features. With Public Beta 13 the EditGrid team is satisfied that most general-user functionalities as well as some of the most fundamental expert-user functionalities are completed, and that EditGrid is ready for most general-purpose usages. The remainder spreadsheet functionalities will be implemented as need arises in the next phase of development.

The most notable new features in this release are:

• [#5153] Finder — use the new Finder button at the top navigation bar to conduct contextual search on all public available spreadsheets, or just your own.
• [#5127] [#5128] Import/export in OpenDocument 1.0 (.ods) and OpenOffice Calc 1.* (.sxc) format
• [#5055] Export to PDF
• [#4128] Overflow text to adjacent cells — option now available at menu bar to toggle it on/off
• [#5098] EditGrid as an online Excel viewer — go to http://www.editgrid.com/viewer/ and key in an URL, and EditGrid will import it for your viewing pleasure.
• [#5306] Auto fit row height for cells with word wrap toggled on.
• [#5283] More languages under ELP — Danish, Dutch, Russian and Vietnamese now available for translation.

Other new features include:

• [#4372] Clone from a previous revision
• [#5038] Static link to localised pages
• [#5321] Fast login
• [#4795] Context menu at row/column header
• [#5303] Hotkeys for copy to/paste from clipboard — Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V
• [#4585] Allow reader to access remote data list
• [#4444] Allow copying/cloning a spreadsheet at sheet properties
• [#4601] Enable double-click to apply formatting in advanced data formatting toolbox
• [#5250] Allow labeling axis on charts
• [#4343] Mass resize column/row
• [#5295] More date format options
• [#5247] HTTPS authentication for everyone
• [#4424] Default format option available for text alignment, font face, foreground colour and background colour

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#5328] Fixed bug where /new causes endless loop to any browser/bot w/o cookies support
• [#5262] Opera support regression
• [#5324] L10n preview site language list incomplete
• [#5325] Pre-select all in paste from clipboard dialogue text area
• [#4942] Cannot select multiple rows or columns in Netcape 8.1
• [#5260] Mutiple row/column selection regression in FF
• [#5151] Close find box upon hitting Esc
• [#4844] Safeguard on too many cells exhibiting RTU effect at once
• [#5179] Inhibit grid admin messages on post-to-blog grids

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