Comparison with Excel
What is Tablomat?
Tablomat is a new spreadsheet editor that makes it simple and efficient to browse, edit and collaborate on modern large spreadsheets.
It is designed from the grounds up to be a lightweight tool for editing 100s of thousands of rows, containing anything from basic text and numeric values to richer types such as lists, rich text documents and images.
Why not Excel or Google Sheets?
Traditional spreadsheet editors often fall short when dealing with large spreadsheets or those containing rich data types.
In online retail, for example, it is common for merchants to curate and maintain large product catalog spreadsheets that need to be browsed and updated on daily basis. An example of this catalog can be viewed here.
A user opening such a catalog in Excel has to:
Size columns/rows, adjust wrap setting, format/unformat cells and apply other visual settings, just to make content more readable.
Filter and sort rows, hide columns/rows and scroll, to browse relevant subsets of the sheet.
Edit and format rich types by hand (for example, separate a list of product tags by commas).
Repeat the previous steps numerous times to complete non-trivial bulk updates.
All this work is needed because Excel and Google Sheets, while great at many things, are still lacking in terms of viewing, navigation and editing ergonomics.
This has a substantial impact on teams that rely on these tools to process modern spreadsheets; time is wasted on mechanical keyboard chores and mistakes are more likely to happen. Overall, teams take longer to deliver and produce outputs of lower quality.
How is Tablomat better?
Tablomat is a new tool, designed from the grounds up to provide superior viewing, navigation and editing ergonomics for modern spreadsheets.
Compared to Excel and Google Sheets it features:
Modern and faster ways to browse and navigate data
Better display of rich content within cells (e.g. list coloring, image thumbnails)
Built-in tools to edit rich content (e.g. rich text editor and file uploader)
Keyboard and mouse shortcuts to perform complex tasks with minimal effort
We'll discuss these features in more details in subsequent sections.
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