Yesterday, a researcher publicly reported some concerns with Google Docs. At Google, we treat the privacy and integrity of our users' data with the highest priority. We quickly investigated, and we believe that these concerns do not pose a significant security risk to our users. If you want the details, read on...The first concern that the researcher raised is that an image embedded in a document is not deleted when a document is deleted. Images are maintained because removing them would break image references in users' other Google documents...
Friday, 27 March 2009
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
I'm excited to tell you about Insert Drawing, a new feature we've added to Google Docs. Now you can create and insert rich, colorful drawings into documents, presentations and spreadsheets, to illustrate your ideas or just for fun.It's easy to create drawings using lines, free hand scribbles, text labels and a large choice of shapes that you can move, resize, rotate and adjust. Group, order, align and distribute and other features are available when...
I'm Canadian. And although I've lived and worked here in the U.S. quite some time now, the Canadian spellings of certain words still often slip into my documents. Favourite, colour, neighbour, centre, etc. -- you get the idea. This week, we've added a new find and replace toolbar (for documents) which will make it easier for me to catch those Canadian spellings when I'm writing for an American audience.If you want to locate a word or phrase in your...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
A few weeks ago we enhanced mobile access to spreadsheets by adding the ability to add, edit, sort, and filter rows. Today, I'm happy to announce that this same list view is now available when you're working on spreadsheets from desktop and notebook computers. You can find list view under the View menu.List view provides a simplified interface to your spreadsheet. Here's an example of a spreadsheet that could be used by employees that are staffing...
The first round of the 2009 NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament starts tomorrow. For many of us in the U.S., it's a time when we root for our favorite college teams and engage in some friendly competition with co-workers and college buddies to see who's going to win the National Championship in Detroit.In preparation for this year's tournament, I used my 20% project time to create the tournament bracket template above, all within...
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Yesterday we contacted some of our users to let them know about an issue that affected their Google Docs accounts. We believe the issue affected less than 0.05% of all documents, but, in the interest of transparency, we wanted to share the details more broadly. As we noted in the Google Docs Help Forum yesterday, we've identified and fixed a bug where a very small percentage of users shared some of their documents inadvertently. The inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights,...
Friday, 6 March 2009
More and more people have started using forms to collect information from their co-workers and customers. To contrast these more "practical" uses, I thought that I'd share three fun surveys that you can send to your friends: one for Star Wars and Star Trek fans, another that lets you find out what your friends think about you, and one with 18 totally random questions (just because).After your friends submit their answers, you'll be able to see nifty...
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Did you know that you can publish a spreadsheet and embed it in your website or blog? An embedded spreadsheet is a perfect way to display an event calendar, team checklist, or your favorite list of things. Publishing a spreadsheet is really flexible. You can choose which parts of the spreadsheet to share with the world: all sheets, certain sheets, even a range of cells. Any changes you (and other collaborators) make to the spreadsheet will be visible to your website visitors.To make this easier, we've recently added five spreadsheet templates to...
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