Posted by: Philip Tucker, Software Engineer, Google DocsWe know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users.Here's why I'm excited about this development. My migration from the desktop to 'the cloud' started with my Gmail account. I could access my mail from anywhere, search it all in one place, and never need to migrate to a new account. It was great. Then I started using Google Calendar to organize...
Monday, 31 March 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing ManagerOn Tuesday, we launched Google Docs in 8 Indic languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu. These languages are spoken by hundreds of millions of people, many of whom live in India, Sri Lanka, and other countries in South East Asia. With this launch, Docs now support 48 languages.To use Google Docs in your preferred language, just sign in, click ‘Settings’ in the upper...
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Posted by: Darren Delaye, User Experience DesignerEvery so often, we hear from users that they have trouble finding a particular feature, like "Check Spelling" or "Word Count" or "Find and Replace".So a while ago, our Docs User Research team worked on a "card-sort" study in which we disconnected all features in the application from the places we had put them in the UI, and asked some people what the labels and icons meant to them, and how they would...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Posted by: Zach Lloyd and Mike Harm, Google spreadsheets engineersAlthough we like to think we move fast, the list of great ideas, needed features and new ways to look at data continues to grow. So, today we're giving developers outside our little team the tools to help extend Google Docs using the Google Gadgets platform.Developers now have an easy way to both add features to Google Docs (in spreadsheets to start) and to pull collaborative data...
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Posted by: Joelle Fornengo, Google Docs OperationsWe're hearing that teachers are using Google Docs in innovative ways. For example, a 9th-10th grade teacher in California recently told us:"I first started using Docs last year in my Freshman English class and my Beginning Journalism class and I loved it right away. There were several reasons why I loved it. First, my students loved collaborating online both at home and at school and it made it easier for me to teach writing. For my Romeo and Juliet unit, I divided my students into pairs and...
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