Have you ever tried looking for a document or spreadsheet from a particular time or from a certain person about a specific topic? Let’s say you’re a rocket scientist and you’re looking for the presentation about “Prototype rockets with lasers” that your manager sent you last year.Normally, you’d just search for [rockets lasers prototypes]. But, lets face it, you’re a rocket scientist so you get lots of matching results; just about every document you have is about rockets or lasers.You could narrow the search in the advanced search menu or you can...
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Monday, 28 June 2010
Cross posted on the Google Mobile BlogLast week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we’re also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.With our mobile viewer you can switch quickly between pages and pan/zoom within a page. On your...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Cross posted on the Gmail blogIf you receive Microsoft® Word files as attachments in Gmail, you can now view them with a single click -- no need to download, save, and open files with a desktop application when all you want to do is have a peek. The Google Docs viewer that allows you to view .pdf, .ppt, and .tiff files in your browser now supports .doc and .docx formats too. Just click the "View" link at the bottom of a Gmail message and the viewer...
In April, we launched a new version of Google spreadsheets. One new feature that helps organize your data is advanced sorting rules.Sorting a selectionWith the new sorting capabilities, you can sort a small selection of cells without affecting the rest of your spreadsheet. In my triathlon spreadsheet, for example, I could sort only the selection about running while leaving the biking and swimming sections intact. First, I highlight the range of cells...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
If you have a public site built on Google Sites, you might be interested in earning revenue with Google AdSense. AdSense allows website publishers such as yourself to show targeted ads on their sites and earn revenue from their traffic. It also helps visitors find things they may be interested in based on the content of those sites. Over 1 million publishers use AdSense to monetize the content on the sites they’ve worked so hard to build.AdSense...
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
A couple of months ago, my co-worker, Mike, showed up at my desk with a pile of paper, each of the yellowed sheets densely covered with an ancient-looking typewriter font. His wife had recently discovered parts of her family chronicles in the attic, typed up by her grandmother many years ago! Now he was wondering if there was a way for her to continue writing the chronicles in Google Docs.The papers sat on my desk for a while, but recently, I returned...
Six months ago, we launched the Chrome extension, Google Docs PDF/Powerpoint Viewer, that allows you to preview PDFs and Powerpoint presentations in your Google Chrome browser without having to download them.With more than 400,000 users, the Google Docs PDF/Powerpoint Viewer extension has become one of the most popular extensions in the Chrome Extensions gallery. Since the launch, we have continued adding features such as support for previewing Microsoft...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The ability to share my Google Docs is crucial to my productivity. My teammates and I often add comments to docs, collaboratively organize our feature-planning spreadsheet, and send links of interesting company presentations to each other. Like anyone, I want to make sure that I can share these materials with my colleagues easily and efficiently. This is why I’m happy to announce some improvements that make sharing your Docs easier while giving you even more control:Improved visibility options indicating how private or shareable a doc is: Google...
Like in a book, the table of contents in a document is an important element that keeps readers and authors organized. It allows you to create a list of links at the beginning of your document that point to different sections of that document. This can be useful for drafting term papers, design documents or restaurant menus. Once you’ve created your table of contents, you can easily update its links as you edit each section of your document.To make...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
We'd like to let you know about a few new features we’ve recently added to drawings. Go create a drawing to check them out.Center on pageWhile it’s possible to use alignment guides to center an object or group of objects on the page, now you can center an object on the page quickly using the context menu or Format menu.Aspect-constrained canvas re-sizeYou’ll often want to just shrink or expand your working canvas size without changing the aspect...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
In April the we launched the new Google drawings editor. I use Google drawings to enhance my Google presentations by building dynamic and informative images in drawings and copying them over to the presentation I’m making. Read on for some tips on how to use drawings to make a better presentation.Expressing ideas using diagrams from the template galleryGoogle recently launched the template gallery for drawings. When I need to express an idea with...
Monday, 14 June 2010
June is the month of graduations and new beginnings for millions of students around the world. The Google Docs team is also continually learning and we’re happy to announce that the new documents and spreadsheets editors have both graduated.DocumentsBeginning today and rolling out over the next couple of weeks, all new documents will be created using the new documents editor. Docs already created using the older editor will remain there. We will be sharing more information on how to move those documents to the new version soon.The new editor was...
Friday, 11 June 2010
Since the launch of Google Docs drawings, we’ve been excited to see you not only create really impressive and useful drawings, but also actively share them with the world. In order to make it easier for you to share your drawings, we’ve added drawings to the Google Docs template gallery. Sharing via the gallery gives you categories, ratings, and even usage counts for drawings you’ve submitted.Here are a couple examples of drawing templates currently...
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
If you’ve been holding off on trying our new editors or know a friend who has never tried Google Docs because they don’t have a Google Account, you can now take Google Docs for a test drive with the new Google Docs demo. This lightweight demo includes a sample document, spreadsheet and drawing and works even if you aren’t logged into a Google Account.Instead of trying to explain to friends how real-time collaboration in Google Docs works, now you...
Monday, 7 June 2010
Embedding a Google document, spreadsheet, presentation, or form in a Google site can help you easily publish and share information in one central location. Embedding is different from simply copying and pasting information into a site because if you make a change to any of your embedded documents while using Google Docs, the changes will be reflected on your site.Embedding a formLet’s say I’m planning a wedding and I’d like to create a Google site...
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