Posted by: Bob Rose, Google Docs engineerAs a software engineer, sharing and collaborating on Google Docs is something I do all the time. There's so much to keep track of that I often create documents describing how to do things, best practices, gotchas, and references to other documents or web pages with more information. When new people join the team, these are valuable references they can use to get up and running quickly. By sharing documents across our team, people can all pitch in to keep the documents up to date, relevant, and useful.In...
Friday, 25 January 2008
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Posted by: Chris Nokleberg, Google Docs engineerWe kicked off 2008 with a slew of new presentation features and your feedback is keeping us busy. Today's additions address some of the most requested features:Save as PDF, for when you really need to download your presentation as a file. PDF-based printing options (save trees and ink!). Go to File->Print, select how many slides you'd like on a page (up to 12), and preview your choice. Vector...
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Posted by: Deepak Jindal, Software EngineerIn December, we told you how we've been working hard to improve the printing features in Google Docs. Over the holidays we added another popularly requested feature: customizable headers and footers for printed documents.To insert a header or footer into your document, click on the "Insert" tab and select "Header" or "Footer." A box surrounded by dashed lines will appear, and anything you place in that box will be repeated on each page of your printed document. This has been a highly requested feature,...
Monday, 7 January 2008
Posted by: Olga Belomestnykh, Docs EngineerHaving read many requests to create sub-folders in Google Docs and having spent many hours building the new feature, I recently found the following note from a fellow Googler on my desk:"Hi Olga: I have been trying for the last 79 hours to create a folder within a folder. Does 'Please try again later' mean it will work in the 80th hour?"The answer was of course "no" -- because until now you couldn't create a folder within a folder in Google Docs. Though it's now way past the 80th hour, my co-worker need...
Friday, 4 January 2008
Posted by: Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, Google Docs EngineersIt's been two months since we launched Google Presentations and already we've got new toys! We've been listening to your feedback and working hard to get you new features as quickly as possible (so keep the suggestions coming). 2008 is going to be a feature packed year for Google Docs, and we are proud to kick it off with these cool new things you can do starting today:But we didn't stop with these new presentation features - today we are releasing some top user-requested features that...
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