We at the EditGrid Team believe that by keep delivering more power to our users, we are making our technology potentially disruptive.

When people think of compatibility across spreadsheet applications, people tend to think of fidelity — whether the spreadsheet file exported from one application can be imported into another application without loss of quality or detail. While EditGrid has been doing pretty well in this arena, we are not satisfied with this — exporting spreadsheet data from EditGrid into a file means that the data have become “offline”. It means that the user loses something — the ability to get real-time updated data and collaborate with each other online — that the user is entitled to on EditGrid.

With this vision in mind we are pleased to announce the launch of EditGrid Excel Plus, a plugin for Microsoft Excel™ that brings the power of EditGrid to the most popular desktop spreadsheet application, in private beta. After installing EditGrid Excel Plus onto your copy of Microsoft Excel, you’ll be able to retrieve data from an EditGrid spreadsheet into your Excel workbook — with RTU — as well as to publish data from your Excel workbook to your EditGrid spreadsheet with one click. You can sign up for the private beta programme now.

This plugin opens up infinite possibilities not available to Excel users before. Combined with EditGrid’s remote data and capability to write data into an EditGrid spreadsheet through the EditGrid API, EditGrid Excel Plus brings live data from the Internet to your desktop. EditGrid powers up Excel.

“The capability to push data from EditGrid to Excel in real-time is amazing,” said Stefan Reichenbach, head of Environmental Markets at Reuters. “We can already see a number of real-life applications in the industry. EditGrid continues to lead the way forward on how online spreadsheets can be useful in our day-to-day operations.”

The development of EditGrid Excel Plus is sponsored by Reuters and ICAP and we are grateful for their sponsorship.

Next up: Excel-to-Excel RTU.

Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

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