Is Distributed Spreadsheet a modified version of Microsoft Excel?
No. Distributed Spreadsheet is an add-in for Excel that turns your single-user workbook into a powerful, easy-to-use planning, budgeting and forecasting tool without modifying any of the existing Excel software. Top How is Distributed Spreadsheet different from just sending out a spreadsheet and asking employees to fill in their assigned information? Distributed Spreadsheet is different in a number of key areas. 1. When a workbook is provided to multiple individuals, what is received from those individuals is the workbook with just their information. Someone still has the task of consolidating all the workbooks together. 2. If a single workbook is “routed” to various individuals, there is no mechanism in Excel to protect 1 individual’s submission from being modified by another. Distributed Spreadsheet provides the mechanism to assign “owners” to each worksheet in a workbook, distribute the workbook to all owners and automatically consolidate the submitted workbooks when received back f
