Don't wait for a feature - write it yourself...

Had to share this, for those of you who don't see the Google Docs & Spreadsheets blog... A spreadsheet filter application was developed using the Spreadsheets API by an intern (go Alex!) on the spreadsheets team. Really valuable when you often work with just a few rows in those large-ish spreadsheets which have many (many!) rows of data...

This app lets you create a bookmarkmarklet (that's a bookmark created by dragging a link to your bookmark bar on your browser) to any of your spreadsheets... it should be self-explanatory - but you basically just feed it the URL of your favorite published spreadsheet...