Google's spreadsheet is simultaneously the most frustrating and most powerful of the functions available in the suite. It's frustrating because it works so completely differently than a product like Excel. It's powerful because you can add plug-in functions to any spreadsheet that will let you display data in a number of creative ways, from power gauges to timelines to word clouds. Between the plug-ins and various Google Web publishing tools, Google Spreadsheets may be the most powerful, easy to use tool for getting complex data published on the Web. FULL REPORT