---
title: "Need an online version of Word or Excel? Try Writely and iRows."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/6/need-an-online-version-of-word-or-excel-try-writely-and-irow.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/6/need-an-online-version-of-word-or-excel-try-writely-and-irow.html"
published: "2006-02-06T11:55:00"
updated: "2006-02-06T11:55:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Cool sites"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Ever wondered what an online version of Word might looks like? Try Writely . How about Excel? Well, the (Israeli) folks who brought you the coolest online calculator , now bring you iRows . I'm impressed."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Need an online version of Word or Excel? Try Writely and iRows.

By Roy Osherove February 6, 2006 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 6, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Ever wondered what an online version of Word might looks like? Try [Writely](http://www.writely.com/).

How about Excel? Well, the (Israeli) folks who brought you the [coolest online calculator](http://www.calcoolate.com/), now bring you [iRows](http://www.irows.com/xo/EditSheet.do).

I'm impressed.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/