{"id":3003,"date":"2008-05-06T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T05:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200805\/google-spreadsheet-sucks\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T05:31:03","slug":"google-spreadsheet-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200805\/google-spreadsheet-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Spreadsheet Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an insanely complex spreadsheet that I use to manage my investments. I decided that I wanted to upload it to Google Spreadsheets so that I don’t have to depend on access to my home laptop. Ran into two problems:<\/p>\n

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  1. Upload of the .ods doc failed. When I converted the same document to .xls, it uploaded. So much for Open Document support.<\/li>\n
  2. It turns out that Google still<\/strong> does not support pivot tables. This is insane. How can you claim to be a serious competitor to Microsoft Excel if you don’t support pivot tables?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The second problem is a showstopper for me. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have an insanely complex spreadsheet that I use to manage my investments. I decided that I wanted to upload it to Google Spreadsheets so that I don’t have to depend on access to my home laptop. Ran into two problems: Upload of the .ods doc failed. When I converted the same document to .xls, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[66,136,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}