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I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned EditGrid. For me, the user experience with EditGrid has always been better than the user experience with Google, an
by abc3 18y ago
I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned EditGrid. For me, the user experience with EditGrid has always been better than the user experience with Google, and EditGrid has always had more and better features as well. See:
http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/pkchan/EditGrid_v._Google http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/pkchan/EditGrid_v._Google
The thing Excel doesn't do as well as I'd like is Text to Columns, specifically for 13F filings. Many people like to track what major investors are buying and selling and would like to do this directly, from SEC filings, instead of through websites like Gurufocus.
For example, here's the Gurufocus page for Seth Klarman:
http://www.gurufocus.com/ListGuru.php?GuruName=Seth+Klarman http://www.gurufocus.com/ListGuru.php?GuruName=Seth+Klarman
You can also find the data for his investment firm, Baupost Group, at SEC Info:
http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Filing.asp?T=1ZCS7.t61_1wt http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Filing.asp?T=1ZCS7.t61_1wt
Clearly, it's possible to automatically get the data from Baupost's freely available SEC filings (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1061768/000106176808000206/acn3q08.txt http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1061768/0001061768080...) into a spreadsheet. It's just that Excel seems to make it a lot harder than I'd like.