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EditGrid April 2007 Release: cell comment, and more

Perfect timing – EditGrid’s April 2007 Release co-incides with a release by our friends at Google Docs & Spreadsheets on the same day. More telling, though, is that we both released the same feature on the same day.

Cell comments are sticky notes that can be attached to a cell to document remarks — both to you and to your co-editors. Now on EditGrid, you can do this in three simple steps:

Create comment
 Insert… 
Edit comment
Edit… 
Show comment
It’s there! 

For the attentive readers out there – yes, the screenshots were created using Safari, or rather WebKit, the core engine underneath Apple’s Safari. EditGrid has supported WebKit’s nightly builds since Public Beta 18, though we have left the unsupported browser warning there simply because WebKit is not yet officially launched.

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5 Responses to “EditGrid April 2007 Release: cell comment, and more”

  1. David Harper Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 6:37 am

    Congrats, this is nice feature. The whole product just keeps getter better. The embedded functionality is superior to the others….can’t wait to see what you guys do next!

  2. P. K. Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    Thanks for your compliments, David. We’ll continue to improve the product. And here’s our future plan of the exciting features to come!

    Yours,

    P. K.

  3. David Harper Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 2:19 am

    PK,

    Can I ask you a question here?

    I am using EditGrid to teach finance. For example, http://www.bionicturtle.com/learn/article/volatility_decay_api1/

    I would like viewers to be able to change a few cells to learn concepts, but it’s not really collaboration. Ideally, a viewer would only modify an “instance” because I’d like the input (editable) cells to default to the same values for a new viewer. Currently, anyone can change my inputs, so they can make the spreadsheet confusing to the next person…

    might you have any thoughts on this? Thanks

  4. P. K. Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    Hi David,

    Try this:

    i. Make your spreadsheet public read-only.
    ii. When you release the URL of your public spreadsheet, attach \”.new\” (without the quotes) to the end of it.

    When opened, the new URL would bring up a new and separate instance of the spreadsheet in the viewer\’s browser in read-write mode. Your original spreadsheet is unaffected by this.

    For more details on how this URL trick works, visit this Forum post by my colleague Tony at the EditGrid Forum, which is a rich resource of how to do stuffs on EditGrid.

    Yours,

    P. K.

  5. David Harper Says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 12:50 am

    P.K.,

    Thanks for your help. This is great, awesome functionality! EditGrid rocks…I feel bad for microsoft excel…okay, I’m over it now ;)

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