Tag Archives: spreadsheet

Pivot Tables in Google Docs

This is amazing. I used to use Pivot Tables on a daily basis, but the last two versions of Excel have made them inexplicable to me. These days, if I need a Pivot Table, I save the spreadsheet table as CSV data, import it into MySQL, and then do SQL queries there to produce a pivot table. But now I might have to try it in my browser instead:

Google Docs on Mobile Devices

This is cool: you can now edit your Google docs on your mobile devices.

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I’ve become quite the fan of Google Docs. That whole cloud thing beats emailing a spreadsheet back and forth between me, the church secretary, and the clerk of session. To say nothing of automated offsite backups, and (now) mobile access. Also, the price is right.