What is the benefit of EditGrid over Excel in shared mode, where multiple people can edit the sheet?
EditGrid provides a more intuitive solution to facilitate collaboration over Excel in shared mode in four aspects: • Accessibility: EditGrid stores your online spreadsheets on the web, accessible any time, any place. In comparison, Excel needs a physical disk-drive, using either Windows’ shared folder or a file server. • Collaboration: EditGrid’s Real-Time-Update(RTU) feature enables concurrent editing, saving and reflecting updates simultaneously. On the other hand, changes to Excel’s shared spreadsheets would only be updated after a duration of at least 5 minutes for its autosave function. • Functionality: All EditGrid features are usable when multiple users are editing the collaborative spreadsheets at the same time. But for Excel in shared mode, important features, like charting, are disabled. • Fine-Grained Privileges: Each EditGrid spreadsheet is specified with privileges for viewing and editing, while the relay of an Excel file defined in the file system restricts a user to view
