15 votes

Looking for an online spreadsheet to share with others (not Google or Microsoft)

Posted by Asinine
Tags: privacy, ask.recommendations, software, spreadsheets, data, open source

I figure the title is good enough, but, I just want to upload/make a spreadsheet in an .ods format so others can view it. Not edit it, not have to sign in to view, but still has sorting options or whatnot. And in the .ods format.

I'm seeing a few options online, but it seems more that they offer viewing but not sorting (which is a huge aspect of spreadsheets), or no importing, or doesn't support .ods.

So I can keep searching and I'm sure something is out there, but does anyone already use a site for these requests?

9 comments

  1. [2]
    Bonooru
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    At the risk of stating the obvious, it seems like boring old email might work for this use case? (I've certainly been known to overengineer a solution in my day. Sometimes the easy things work...

    At the risk of stating the obvious, it seems like boring old email might work for this use case?

    (I've certainly been known to overengineer a solution in my day. Sometimes the easy things work well enough)

    10 votes
    1. vord
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      Heck, could just put link as a direct fileshare if users are going to have a client anyhow. As a society we have been spending hundreds of thousands of labor-hours developing abstractions to avoid...

      Heck, could just put link as a direct fileshare if users are going to have a client anyhow.

      As a society we have been spending hundreds of thousands of labor-hours developing abstractions to avoid having to rework an application when an underlying library changes, only to have to rearchitect an insanely more complex abstraction layer when this happens.

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    goose
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    I think CryptPad meets your requirements.

    I think CryptPad meets your requirements.

    9 votes
    1. [3]
      Asinine
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      I'm not seeing how to import/upload?

      I'm not seeing how to import/upload?

      1 vote
      1. [2]
        paris
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        You have to make a new file in the Cryptpad drive, then upload the document in the “new file” window, then right-click and “open with…” to the spreadsheet editor. It’s not very intuitive....

        You have to make a new file in the Cryptpad drive, then upload the document in the “new file” window, then right-click and “open with…” to the spreadsheet editor. It’s not very intuitive.

        https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/FAQ.html#how-to-import-export-to-from-another-platform

        edit: I could not get it to work, but i only use safari, which is explicitly stated as nonfunctional.

        3 votes
        1. Asinine
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          Yeah, then that's a hard nope. I mean, obviously it's going do some sort of cloud save, but I can easily open/import on google.

          Yeah, then that's a hard nope. I mean, obviously it's going do some sort of cloud save, but I can easily open/import on google.

          3 votes
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    vord
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    I've been giving Proton Sheets a go. I forget if it's paid to create your own, but it has an import button just like Google Drive. You can't edit officially on mobile yet, but if you're tolerant...

    I've been giving Proton Sheets a go. I forget if it's paid to create your own, but it has an import button just like Google Drive. You can't edit officially on mobile yet, but if you're tolerant of tiny fonts it works fine in Desktop Mode.

    Have a public test page.

    5 votes
    1. grum
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      im hoping they eventually change it so you can zoom and scale the page. the fonts are really tiny for my old grummy eyes.

      im hoping they eventually change it so you can zoom and scale the page. the fonts are really tiny for my old grummy eyes.

      3 votes
  4. d32
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    Nextcloud with Collabora installed is probably the best you can get... But not very good. Server side graphics rendering makes it clumsy to use. Onlyoffice is much better usability wise, but it's...

    Nextcloud with Collabora installed is probably the best you can get... But not very good. Server side graphics rendering makes it clumsy to use.
    Onlyoffice is much better usability wise, but it's russian, so I wouldn't recommend that.

    2 votes