Google Spreadsheets adds gadgets

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Google Spreadsheets adds gadgets

by Brad Linder Mar 19th 2008

Google seems to be rolling out improvements to Google Spreadsheets like there's no tomorrow. Or like there's no Microsoft Office tomorrow anyway. When you click the little chart icon in the Google Spreadsheets toolbar, you now get a whole slew of charts and other gadgets to choose from in addition to the pie, bar, and line charts that Google introduced a while back.

The new gadget gallery includes:

Tables and pivot tables
Maps and heatmaps
Google web and image searches for selected values
Organization charts

Users can also create their own custom gadgets using the Google Gadgets API. In non-chart/gadget news, Google has also added the option to receive email notifications when someone changes a spreadsheet, and a variety of other bug fixes and feature enhancements including improved sort, filter, and unique functions.

[via Google Operating System]

Tags: charts, gadgets, google-docs, google-spreadsheets, graphs, office, spreadsheets

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