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The Google Sheets Formulas That Do Not Survive the Trip to Excel
Download a Google Sheet as an Excel file, open it, and you may find #NAME? errors where your formulas used to be. The natural assumption is that your version of Excel is too old to recognize the function. Usually it isn't. The cause is something else, and it leads to...
The Google Sheets Formulas That Silently Stop Calculating in Excel
When you download a Google Sheet as an Excel file, some formulas arrive broken and show #NAME?. Those are the lucky ones. You can see them. The dangerous cells show no error at all. They display a perfectly reasonable number. They contain something that looks like a...
What Really Happens to Your Formulas When You Move a Spreadsheet Between Excel and Google Sheets
Spreadsheets move between Excel and Google Sheets constantly. A file gets emailed to someone who lives in the other app, downloaded for a client who does not, or shared with a team split between the two. The natural assumption is that the formula travels intact from...
Same Formula, Different Answer: Spreadsheet Traps in Excel and Google Sheets
Most differences between Excel and Google Sheets are easy to catch. If a formula does not exist in the other app, you get a loud #NAME? error and you go fix it. The dangerous differences are the quiet ones: a formula that runs cleanly in both apps, throws no error in...
Excel vs Google Sheets Formula Compatibility: The Complete Guide
Excel and Google Sheets feel interchangeable. They share hundreds of function names, the same =FUNCTION(arguments) syntax, and the same basic grid. Most of the time a formula written in one works in the other, which is exactly why the exceptions are so easy to miss....
Working with Grid Controls in SpreadsheetWeb: Input, Output, and Form-Based
Most business logic in Excel does not live in single cells. It lives in tables: line items, schedules, rosters, rate cards, and results that span many rows and columns. When you turn an Excel model into a web application with SpreadsheetWeb, grid controls are how...
What's New in SpreadsheetWeb - June 2026
The June 2026 release brings new charting, page design, and document generation enhancements to SpreadsheetWeb Hub. This update focuses on making visual content easier to build, simplifying page setup, and giving developers more control over merged print documents....
Are Spreadsheets Becoming the Shared Working Surface for Business and AI
The wrong prediction In late 2023, the conventional wisdom was that natural language would replace the spreadsheet. AI labs were going to give business users a chat interface, and the grid would join the fax machine in the museum of office tools. Two and a half years...
What's New in SpreadsheetWeb - May 2026
The May 2026 release introduces several new productivity and content management enhancements to SpreadsheetWeb Hub. This update focuses on improving application authoring, simplifying content publishing, and reducing repetitive setup work across applications. Markdown...