Take Control of Working with Your iPad

Use Google Spreadsheets

Another component of the free Google Docs suite of Web applications is Google Spreadsheets (http://spreadsheets.google.com/). Although Google Spreadsheets isn't as powerful or flexible as Excel or Numbers, it does have a respectable set of features and a nice, almost desktop-like user interface.

If you visit your Google Docs account in Safari on the iPad, however, Google delivers the Mobile version of its Spreadsheets app. This lets you do basic editing, but lacks many of the features available in the version of Google Spreadsheets available to desktop browsers.

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Switcheroo: Even though there's a "Go to spreadsheet view" link, you can't switch to the desktop version in Safari—it keeps redirecting you to the mobile version ...