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Please please please give us the ability to do simple calculations in Paper tables.
Then we can stop using google docs spreadsheets.
Hi Walter - yes we use Airtabe extensively here. I agree that it is worth suggesting to anybody who isn't aware of it.
I wish that Dropbox would hurry up and buy Airtable already!!
But note that it fails in these cases as an embeddable spreadsheet table:
1. It's messy to include (it's a fixed shape IFRAME with scrollbars)
2. It's not a general spreadsheet (columns can have formulae but cells can't) - This makes it especially bad for things like budget sketches
3. You can't edit the embed view (and currently it doesn't update automatically when somebody edits elsewhere)
4. It prints really badly (that's quite general in Airtable sadly unless you buy the top tier package and get blocks)
So although being able to embed them in Paper Dropbox is a fantastic addition, from my experience it resolves about 20% of the cases when you'd want to have a table with spreadsheet-like features inside Paper Dropbox.
I imagine inside Dropbox somebody's playing with a prototype of table-spreadsheet features right now, and is just trying to convince the rest of the team to go with it ;)