Google Docs a web based document processor
Google introduced one more online tool to store the documents and view it in online. Google Account is enough to use the Google Docs Application. Using Google Docs you can upload Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, forms, drawing and many more formats to its online storage. You can even create new documents and edit the documents in online. Google Docs provides 1 GB of free space. If you want more space for commercial use then you can buy 20 GB for $5.00 USD per year, 80 GB for $20.00 USD per year and many more plans are available.
Google Docs is available in Feb 2007 to Google users.
Google Docs came from two products. Spreadsheet and word processor are separate products which are owned by 2Web and Upstartle respectively. Upstartle is first company who launched the web based word processor in 2005. Later Google acquired Upstartle in 2006. Spreadsheet is originally developed by 2Web technologies and it acquired 2Web technologies and release Google Spreadsheet in 2006.
Now we will see the Google Docs features
Google Docs is an office suite which contains Documents, Spreadsheet, Presentation, forms, Drawing and many more formats. All of those can be created in Google Docs and can be edited online. All the Google Docs documents will be stored in Google server. You can save the Documents in HTML, PDF, RTF and many more formats. Apart from the standard templates Google Docs also supports other predefined templates and off course you can submit your own template that are available in the below link
http://documents.google.com/templates?hl=en
Google Docs Document
Google Docs service will be supported in Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer and supported operating systems are Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Google Apps supports most of the features that are supported in Microsoft word or Open Office. The Above tab shows Save, Print, Undo, Redo, Paste, Styles, Fonts, Size, Bold, Italic, Underline, Spell check and many more features as in work processor. Short cuts keys are also available.
You can create a document in online and you can save the file in online server and later you can save it to your location machine with different formats.
Google Docs Spreadsheet
Spread sheet can be created in online and you can share with other through Email or you can publish the spread sheet as a web page and many more option available. Adding a new spread sheet , AutoSave , Formula and save the spread sheet in different formats such as Excel, Pdf, CSV, HTML, Text and Openoffice.
Mobile Google Docs allows mobile phones to access the Google Docs documents like word and spread sheet can be viewed, edited however you cannot edit PDF and openoffice documents. You can create a folder and you can share the folder with others in online.
Google Docs is almost like a computer where we can use it for creating documents, share documents, Check the last modified date, Last viewed, Name and store the documents in Google storage device and can be accessed from anywhere from the world.
Just Launched Features are
Google Drawing with Organizational and Flow charts, design diagrams and many more include in its new release.
New version of Google docs with improved performance and features like Chat, Import, Exports are included in its Latest version of Google docs.
Improved Spreadsheet includes features like Drag'n'drop columns, Changes in Formula bar and many more.
Complete Folder Sharing to others is included
Multiple files can be uploaded to the Docs List easily and quickly than ever before
Drawing Can be included in any documents, Spreadsheet and Presentation is one of the best features in the Latest release
Using GoogleTranslate you can translate to different languages in a spreadsheet, =GoogleTranslate ("Hola, Test","es","en"), this statement translates the text from (es) Spanish to (en) English. Whereas en and es are language codes that can be found in Google by typing "es language code". If you don't know what language, you can detect the language using =DetectLanguage("Hola","test") gives as "en".
Many more features are available in Google Docs latest version. Check all the new features in the below link
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html
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