Frustrations with Google Docs

8/19/2008 — Leave a comment

Google Spreadsheets

  1. Insert copied cells — Seems like such a small thing, but I need to do it all the stinkin’ time.
  2. Fill down with a double-click — This is an Excel trick that I use heavily.  Not so in Spreadsheets.
  3. Sort by multiple columns — Can’t do it.  sorting in general is very slow, IMO.
  4. Autofilter — Can’t do it.  There’s a gadget that attempts this functionality, but it’s buggy.

Google Docs

  1. Bullets, ordered lists & outlining — indenting and unindenting gets you in a mess real quick.  It’s frustrating to have to either a) edit the HTML or b) clear formatting and redo all of the indenting.
  2. Outline view/pane — I use this a lot in Word — it builds a hyperlink view of your document based on heading styles.  I wish Google Docs had something similar.  The new Table of Contents component is nice, but I need something that helps me jump around inside long documents.

wvpv

what others do with talent, I do with obstinate fixation

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