Tips and Tricks: Images in cells

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, you can now insert images into a cell. With the image() formula you can link to a publicly accessible image and control how it will look with optional parameters. This is useful for bringing a visual element to your spreadsheets for things such as a product catalog listing.For example the formula =image("http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/srpr/logo1w.png", 1) will scale the image down in the current...

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Improving team collaboration and productivity with Google Sites

If you’re interested in learning more about Google Sites, this cross post from the Google Enterprise Blog might interest you.Effective collaboration has become a key driver to improve team productivity. Project teams, often located across disparate locations and time zones, produce and distribute content in different formats and platforms. Teams need to consolidate relevant information in one place that’s easy to navigate and retrieve. Contributors and reviewers have specific needs to manage the creative process, maintain the project plan and...

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New this week in Docs: Drag and drop upload and compact controls

We just launched a pair of features that can save you time and give you more room to work: drag and drop upload and compact controls.Drag and drop uploadA few weeks ago, we made it easier to add images to your documents using drag and drop. Today we’re extending that functionality to the file upload page, making it even easier to move your files into the cloud. Now if you’re using Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, you’ll be able to quickly drag files...

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A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers

Cross posted on the Google Enterprise BlogTens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice.To help smooth the transition from Office...

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Tips & Tricks: Creating new Google Docs from your mobile

Yesterday, we announced mobile editing on Google Docs, which we've now rolled out to all English-language users.One of the new features that launched is creating new documents and spreadsheets on your phone. This is particularly useful to jot down quick notes on the run, whether it’s capturing that game-changing idea for your company while at the gym, or typing out your grocery list on the train ride home.Head to docs.google.com from your mobile...

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Editing your Google Docs on the go

Cross posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Mobile BlogWith Google Docs, we’re always trying to make you more productive—and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime. That’s why we’re excited that the new documents editor now supports editing on your mobile browser. We’re rolling this out over the next few days.That means that...You can work on that important memo...while...

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Faster typing, fewer mistakes

With Google Docs we try to make writing a document as easy and as fast as possible. Yesterday, we added two new auto-correction features to speed up your document writing.LaTeX shortcuts in equationsUntil now, the only way to enter an equation in documents was to create the equation from the Insert menu, and then use the equation toolbar to choose your symbols.The toolbar makes it easy to discover which types of equations are possible.Today we’re...

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New this week in Docs: auto-corrections, LaTeX in equations and images in cells

If you’re looking for more ways to speed up your typing or have been craving images in your spreadsheets, we have something for you this week. Auto-corrections and LaTeX shortcuts to equations speed up typing and reduce editing while images to cells make it easy to add color to your spreadsheets. These features are rolling out over the next couple of days.We’ll be blogging about each feature in detail, but in the meantime here’s the quick digest version:Auto-correctionsWe’ve added a feature to substitute text automatically. For example,...

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Tips & Tricks: Moving my files to the cloud

About a year ago, I started scanning and uploading all the important papers floating around my house into Google Docs. It seemed like an obvious solution to three things that drove me crazy:Clutter (I believe papers not only accumulate but secretly multiply)Access (I always need that bill/file that is at home and not at the office with me)Sharing (It’s a common occurrence that I need someone else to also look at that file, and that person is hardly ever with me at the office either.)Scanning and uploading ended up being only half the battle. My...

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Tips & Tricks: Our favorite shade of beige, the ruler

Recently, we launched a rebuilt document editor from the ground up. Just like some colors stand out more than others, there are some features in the new editor that are particularly shiny. While features like real-time collaboration, more fonts, and an advanced revision history tool are like neon green, crimson red, and ultramarine, the ruler tends to be viewed more like a beige.But the ruler, like beige, can certainly have its charms. You can use...

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Google Docs on Twitter

Want to stay up-to-date on all the latest Google Docs news, tips and tricks? Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/googled...

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Writing a campaign speech with Google Docs

A few months ago, my colleague Julia and I were at a technology conference for educators. Teachers were very enthusiastic when we demonstrated working together on documents at the same time and were really excited about how they could use it in their classrooms. What surprised us though, was how many of our favorite features - like working together at the same time - were brand new to them.We knew we wanted to share that same excitement with even more people. Inspired by the Search Stories videos, we set off to tell a story using Google Docs....

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Join the Docs Community on YouTube

Two years ago, we created the Google Docs Community on YouTube as a space to feature user-created videos about Google Docs. Today, we’re reviving the channel with new life and new videos from the community and the Google Docs team.You’ll find videos ranging from helpful tutorials to creative testimonials in easy to browse playlists. On the channel, you can view Google Docs success stories:And learn how to use features in Google Docs and Sites, ranging from basic editing to features used by our most advanced users:You’ll even be able to check out...

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Recapping the Google Sites webinar

Guest post: Stephen Hind (commonly known as Steegle) has been a Top Contributor in the Google Sites help forum since its launch in January 2009. Top Contributors are Google-recognized participants of our help forums who exemplify excellent product knowledge, are consistently kind and respectful to others, and are helpful in the forum. He’s an avid user of Google Sites both professionally and personally, and creates and manages Google Sites for other...

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New in Google Docs and Google Sites

Two big advantages of building web applications are frequent feature releases and easier cross-product sharing. Today we have a little of both for you. This week, we are adding version history to uploaded files in the documents list as well as drop downs in horizontal navigation and a new sharing experience to Google Sites.Version history Earlier this year, we added the ability to “Upload any file” to Google Docs so that you upload, store, and share...

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Guest post: Writing a book using Google Docs

Guest post: November is National Writing Month and to celebrate, we’ve invited Dr. Steven Daviss to talk about how he used Google Docs to write a book with two colleagues. Dr. Daviss is currently the Chairman of Psychiatry at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Maryland and has been increasingly leveraging his clinical and administrative experience towards a career merging health care policy, informatics, and health care reform.Two other psychiatrists...

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