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Originally Posted by PencilGeeks
For me, it's working great they way it is..
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I get it.
This will be my only soapbox on this....so I hope. Sometimes I can't help myself. And also understand - Burt can surely attest to this - when I speak, I often do so with an intensity and passion that makes me sound unreasonably forceful. I am not, so please take this with a grain of salt.
By making an Excel sheet a Google Sheet, you gain the following advantages:
1)With a Google Sheet, THE sheet lives in one place. The editor goes to that place, and the readers of said sheet go to that same place. Editor makes a change, that change is seen real-time by everyone.
Currently, the process goes like this. Author has a *master version* of the sheet. He updates it, uploads it. No problem. But now we each must download this new version to our computers in order to be up-to-date. Have none of you ever had an issue of looking at an old version and not realized it? I realize there's a "current as of" date and all, but to actually only have one living version of a document is clean, simple, and lessens confusion. At this very moment, there are probably 12 copies of the latest version of the app out there right now - one on each of our hard drives.
2)The current model assumes everyone owns a copy of Excel. Which is fine, I assume all of you guys do. I actually "gave up" Excel two years ago, but I've just been downloading the app, then re-uploading it onto my Google Drive and have been viewing it with Sheets myself. Which isn't a big deal at all and it's saved me money. And I can view it anywhere on any computer, iPad, or phone.
3)The permissions on Sheets are such that you can choose who has edit rights, who has view rights, etc. In this case, I'd assume one person (who does this for us, anyway? I'm still lost as to who most of us are, my apologies!) would have edit rights and everyone else would have view rights.
Anyway, it's just a suggestion...I deal with this sort of thing in my real life all the time. At my school, the sharing and versioning capabilities of Docs, Sheets, Slides just makes things.....easier. And it's the type of easier you don't realize you're missing out on until you begin using it.