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Online versus desktop
Web-based spreadsheets do not in general depend on a particular operating system or similar constraints and are therefore generally more portable by their nature than desktop applications.
Contents
- Online versus desktop
- Collaborative spreadsheets
- Remote data update
- Online spreadsheets
- Operating system support
- Importexport capabilities
- References
Collaborative spreadsheets
Generally, online spreadsheets offer spreadsheet sharing and public sharing as part of their features which enables collaboration between multiple users.
Remote data update
Some on-line spreadsheets provide remote data update allowing data values to be extracted from other users' spreadsheets even though they may be inactive at the time.
Gnumeric (listed below as a desktop spreadsheet) is also used as the "back-end" processor in at least one on-line spreadsheet application (Editgrid).
Online spreadsheets
The following tables only provide a comparison of desktop spreadsheet applications.
For a list and links to comparisons of online (web-based) spreadsheets, see List of online spreadsheets.
Operating system support
The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).
Import/export capabilities
This table gives a comparison of what file formats each spreadsheet can import and export. "Yes" means can both import and export.