vincevincevince - 4:50 am on Jun 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

I got my invitiation last night and decided that I'd use Google Spreadsheet in place of OpenOffice Calc all day today as a test. Yep, I'm trying to use it for everything, no holds barred.

Observations so far:
1. Menus do not close when you click the menu-heading

2. Have to disable FlashBlock in firefox (the flash elements are hidden so no 'play' button available)

3. Works with Adblock on in firefox (great - adsense's interface is very annoying in that respect)

4. File>Open selects all the elements on the page and fails to open any dialog.

5. Open a Spreadsheet direct link will not load a 1.4Mb .csv file. ***First serious failure as I cannot manipulate the affiliate feed I'm dealing with this morning***

6. Will not load 1.6Mb .xls file (same file as the 1.4Mb CSV but converted to .xls). Both cases the error is 'Document contains no data'.

7. Tried to copy-paste from OO Calc into Google Spreadsheet (1885 rows x 10 columns). Browser unresponsive for almost 5 minutes, following which no cells had been filled. Small red error message (bottom right) reads "Ooops, you can't paste that much text from the clipboard".

I've given up on Google Spreadsheets for now. It can't handle the first task I tried, loading a document.

I wonder if Google Spreadsheets will have a direct upload button to Google Base?