Excel Sharing and Internet - What's out there?

[SusaninHouston]

I'd love to know what's out there now (and just around the corner) that can enable an Excel file to be accessed over the Internet and shared by multiple users.

I develop industry-specific complex analytical Excel apps for users who are, for the most part, not very technical. They have the prevailing mindset that 'Internet is better' for pretty much everything. While I love the Internet, it seems better suited for database applications rather than spreadsheet applications, and the 'multiple moving pieces' type apps I write are DEFINITELY better suited for spreadsheets.

Nonetheless - They want to be able to access these apps via the Internet (I get that) and share one master copy (I get that too) -- and Excel is awful for Sharing if you've got VBA code that needs to lock and unlock various worksheets to perform different operations -- which mine invariably do.

I've seen some applications that claim to replicate Excel functionality, but most seem to be spreadsheet-like front ends to databases or compilers, or single-sheet bound or otherwise unsuitable.

Anyone found anything great?

 

[shg]

Office Web Apps, but I don't believe VBA is supported. Download: Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

 

[Smitty]

You can use Dropbox to sync workbooks between users, and it does support VBA. But it's cloud hosting, not so much a web-based interface.

HTH,

 

[SusaninHouston]

Dropbox looks very interesting! Like it will pretty much do what I want. I'll have to check it out in more detail - Thanks!