Facebook, not too long ago released Facebook (fan) Page, and we too have ventured into Facebook. Facebook is a happening place but is far from being the perfect platform for offering our spreadsheet application or even other office/productivity tool. In other words, Facebook is cool, everyone is creating their own product page, so we are doing it as well.

OK, I’d be lying if that wasn’t partially true, but our main goal of diving into Facebook is to provide an additional medium, in form of a social network, where our users and EditGrid team can connect to share and help one another. From those aspects, Facebook offers a better platform for what we want to do, which is an immediate relationship to our users and potential users or anyone really, an open communication channel for support and discussions and a platform to provide visuals for our product release.

So, if you are a Facebook addict and an EditGrid user or anyone for that matter, why not join us our Facebook product page and become our fan and start conversing.

Our monthly release is out. We’ve mixed the October release together with the November release. This month’s release is primarily focused on improving the usability, with enhancements made to the user interface and added keyboard shortcuts and have made EditGrid feel even more like the desktop programs which a majority of you have grown accustomed to.

We’ve added the following features and enhancements to this month’s release:

• Format Painter
• Paste Special
• Apple shortcut keys support
• Improved UI within the Organization tab
• Extended Workspace layout

Those are just a few of the notable features and enhancements, to see the complete list and details of the new features, enhancements and bug fixes, head over to our Change Log or better yet, sign in and give them a try.

As with any updates or releases, we’d love to hear what you think. If you have encountered any issues or pesky bugs with this month’s release or with our service in general, please send an email to us, cs@editgrid.com, with the issues you are having or report your bug at our support forums.

Thanks for supporting EditGrid!

November 2007 Release (rev 11917)

Our monthly release is out and we have included October’s changes into this release.

The most notable new features in this release are:

• Format Painter (#6458) - We’ve continue to improve EditGrid to match the experience you get from the desktop spreadsheet programs. With our new Format Painter, you can now save time by using this feature to copy all of the cell(s) format attributes.
• Paste special options (#7507) - Just like the Format Painter, we’ve also added the Paste Special menu item in the Grid menu and expanded paste options to allow you to paste Content, Comment or Format.
• Improved Cursor - When you select a range, you can now use [ < shift > + ] < enter > or [ < shift > + ] < tab > command to navigate within the selected range.

Enhancements:

• Improved layout in organization tab
• Extended workspace layout
• Support Apple shortcut keys (#7255)
• Clear all formatting (< Ctrl >+< Shift >+< Delete >) (#5389)
• Autofill shortcut keys < Ctrl > + d & < Ctrl > + r (#7032)
• Improved interactivity with grid menu
• Improved hotkey support of copy-and-paste in different browser and platform
• Insert hot-keys: - Current Date ( Ctrl+;), Current Time ( Ctrl+:), Current Date and Time ( Ctrl+.)

And some major bug fixes:

• Enabled Brazil stock market from remote data UI (#4734)
• Cmd+key in FF for Mac OS X wrongly captured (#5040)
• Stop formula bar flashing during multiple selection (#5157)
• Read-only when users switched to a linked sheet (#5764)
• in formula bar not working when find box is active (#5840)
• Hotkey for navigating across menus in menu bar (#6016)
• Copy and paste encoding issue for certain unicode characters (#6199)
• Repeated code captured when key in chinese in Safari (#6309)
• Can’t hide row header in post-to-blog mini-grid in WebKit (#6317)
• Escape from find toolbox partially steal focus from grid (#6557)
• Find dialogue text displayed on top left corner of screen (#6662)
• Fail to trigger context menu by hotkey in Webkit (#6723)
• F2 in Opera occasionally captured by browser (#6927)
• Grid steal focus from toolbox on ctrl+/ (#6948)
• Abnormal advanced border non-overlapping behavior (#7001)
• on formula bar chops input (#7122)
• Opera arrow key malfunction (#7401)
• Content cleared on Cmd+X and Ctrl+X on Formula Bar (#7383)
• Typing spreadsheet name for new book will enter edit mode (#7372)
• Check box cannot be check by clicking label in “Post to Blog” page (#7295)

As with any updates or releases, we’d love to hear what you think. If you have encountered any issues or bugs with this month’s release or with our service in general, please send an email to us at cs@editgrid.com along with the issues you are having or report your bug at our support forums.

Normally, when we talk about spreadsheets, we would think, numbers, graphs and charts. They would be used in offices and at homes for tracking expenses and do some occasional number crunching. That’s productive and all but more likely than not, they will end up back to the wilderness that is your hard drive, probably never to be seen again.

At EditGrid, we have made spreadsheets fun (and productive, of course) and allowed our users’ imagination go wild letting them define their personal spreadsheets. One user has done just that and gone where no spreadsheets have gone before, 1 million plus views. Who would have thought spreadsheets can be so captivating?

Just last week, our first user, Wargodriver (in Chinese), reached that tremendous feat. His ADR spreadsheet is simply amazing. The spreadsheet provides a dashboard view of financial markets in Asia, US and Europe. You are able to analyze and view the popular traded stocks in Hong Kong and China stock market, as well as see how other popular indicies around the world are performing.

The data on the spreadsheet are dynamically generated from open resources around the web and it utilizes our Remote Data feature for the stock quotes and foreign exchanges and our Dynamic Image feature for the financial charts.

Now, that’s some good stuff! Congratulations to Wargodriver!

Since joining EditGrid last week, I’ve been busy on the look out of new buzz and catching up on past buzz.. There’s been three podcasts this month that mentions EditGrid and it’s exciting that people are talking and using our service and with such positive reviews.

MacBreak Weekly 60 (begins at ~58:30), hosted by Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Scott Bourne, Andy Ihnatko, and Chris Breen. Andy Ihnatko talks about EditGrid and more specifically about our really cool iPhone version.

SMARTBoard Lesson Podcast #96 (begins at ~4:10), hosted by Ben Hazzard and Joan Badger. Joan introduces EditGrid to her listeners and Ben dives in with a brief comparison between us and Google Docs and iPhone version.

On The Pod (begins at ~37:20), hosted by Duncan Riley. Duncan talks with Nick Hodge of Microsoft and Nick admits his personal use of EditGrid. To correct Duncan, we are actually based out of Hong Kong and not Singapore.

Great podcasts and thanks MacBreak@Twit.tv, SMARTBoard and Nick for their positive feedback of our service. If you haven’t tried EditGrid yet, definitely go check it out for yourselves!

Now that I’m all caught up, we’ll be on top of things.