Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Google Spreadsheets and Google Finance

Call me an Excel bigot, if you must, but I haven’t really played with Google Spreadsheets much. I’m not a big fan of online applications. But, my mind is open and I recently learned of a really great feature: Google Spreadsheets can link to data in Google Finance! This means that you can have live data in your spreadsheet without needing a Bloomberg feed. You can also attach working spreadsheets to your Web (or Blog) pages. Let’s see how well this works:

So, how does this work? Easy. First you will need a Google account. If you have a GMail address, you are good to go - just use the

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