Google Sheets: are there enough users to get our own forum?

[gardnertoo]

I have been an Excel user for many years, and a beneficiary of the great talent pool here at MrExcel. Now I am changing jobs, moving to a company that uses Google Sheets instead of Excel. I've been playing with it a bit this morning, and found that while most of my Excel experience will transfer directly, there are some differences. One annoying example: hitting F9 does not recalculate anything. One cool example: when you do recalculate, by changing a cell value for example, charts animate from their "before" values to their "after" values. It's pretty cool watching the dots on a scatter chart slide around. (OK, geek moment over...)

I am wondering if there are enough of us on the MrExcel board who use Google Sheets to justify having a dedicated sub forum? I did a search of the Excel forum, and many people with Google Sheets questions are getting Excel answers that work, but I doubt the lack of F9 function is going to be the only difference between the two.

 

[gardnertoo]

Based on the massive response this post has generated, that's a "No" to my question, LOL!

 

[J.Ty.]

I think people rarely visit this forum, and that's the reason behind the "massive response" you have noticed.

J.Ty.

 

[gardnertoo]

That's true, probably a big part of it.

For those in the future who search for Google Sheets or Google Docs and find this thread, there IS a pretty active forum for those products hosted by Google. I just found it today, don't know yet if the level of expertise there is anything like what we enjoy here, but there is the occasional contribution from a member of the Google Docs team, so that's something.

 

[J.Ty.]

Could you post the address? I just happen to have a question...

J.Ty.

 

[RoryA]

There's a link in that last post.

 

[J.Ty.]

Indeed.
Is there a method to change the colour of links in MrExcel, because they are extremely similar to the normal text (at least on my machine). I can find them only when I know that they are there.

J.Ty.