Trying to do some of the most simple tasks in Google Docs are so complicated. In excel select a row header and press filter, then you can select on each column and they get filtered. Simple.
Try doing the same in Docs, you have to write formulas?
Crap I tell you!
#moan over
Figured out how to do that, but going back to excel is also a conver as shared doecuments are nice from multiple locations. It's either that or spend big making a web applciation (better things to spend money on right now)
For shared spreadsheets, I use editgrid.com
The associated blog seems a bit dead. so not sure how long it will be around, but it is a far closer experience to using Excel than Google Docs.