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Google Docs adds shared folders
News Google Docs has long let users share documents between one another, but folders — a feature added to Docs back in mid-2007 — have largely been left out of the picture. See Google Docs adds live sharing to folders on CNET News for more on this story.
[October 13, 2009, 9:26]
Google Docs gets .docx and .xlsx support
News Google on Monday announced that Google Docs now supports .docx and .xlsx, two file formats found in nearly every modern-day word processor or spreadsheet editor. Previously, when trying to import either of these formats into Google Docs, the...
[June 2, 2009, 9:30]
Google Docs items to show up in search
News Google plans to make all publicly published Google Docs documents, presentations and spreadsheets available for search on the web. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public website to be crawled and indexed, which means...
[September 21, 2009, 12:21]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets realistic target market... not the enterprise.
Talkback When I first encountered a promotion for Google Docs and Spreadsheets Beta version after logging out of my AdWords account I was skeptical. Google Docs and Spreadsheets is a great collaboration tool. I can only think of one application that has all...
[November 17, 2006, 18:26]
Google Docs gets Gadgets
News Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on websites. Gadgets will soon be coming to other applications in Google Docs, and...
[March 20, 2008, 12:51]
Google Docs gets limited PDF support
News Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but useful support for PDF files. The move, announced on the Google Docs blog on Friday, has not come as a surprise to observers, who had spotted signs of imminent...
[June 18, 2008, 9:11]
Google Docs & Spreadsheets review
Reviews Google Docs & Spreadsheets lets you apply various formatting styles and fonts to text, which is good enough for most writing tasks. Google Docs & Spreadsheets displays text and spreadsheet files in a list that you can organise by subject tags or...
[November 28, 2006, 8:26]
Google Docs and ODF
Talkback Who gave you the idea that Google Docs does not support Open Document Format (ODF)? It does do in full, on an equal basis with Microsoft Office formats.
[September 22, 2007, 23:19]
Google Docs update introduces bugs
News Google confirmed on Wednesday that the company's update to Google Docs on Monday introduced bugs, including problems with uploading, printing and exporting some files. We discovered some latency (slow response) issues in the conversion process used...
[October 15, 2009, 15:19]
Google Docs gets translation feature
News On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, so users can now perform on-the-spot translations into one of 42 languages. Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products.
[August 28, 2009, 12:04]
Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs
News Adobe has launched Acrobat.com, an online document collaboration tool that the software company is pitching as a competitor to Google Docs. Larsen said Acrobat.com will be a direct competitor to Google's online document collaboration service...
[June 15, 2009, 11:53]
Offline Google Docs expected to launch
News Recent news from the blogosphere indicates that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears. Speculation around the launch of such a service has been fuelled by...
[January 30, 2008, 8:09]
Google extends reliability promise to all Apps
News The company has now extended the promise to Google Calendar, Docs and all the other elements of its Apps service. Today, we're announcing that we will extend the 99.9 percent service-level agreement we offer Premier Edition customers on Gmail to...
[October 31, 2008, 10:03]
iSpreadsheet
Downloads iSpreadsheet is an iPhone spreadsheet application with Google Documents integration, smooth, crystal clear graphics, and compatibility with major spreadsheet applications (Excel, Numbers, Open Office, and Google Docs).iSpreadsheet features Google...
[May 22, 2009, 8:26]
Google tests out customisation for Apps
News The feature, called Google Apps Script, will initially work with the spreadsheet in Google Docs. It also reaches outside of spreadsheets to allow you to send emails or create calendar entries," Google Docs product manager Jonathan Rochelle wrote in...
[May 28, 2009, 14:29]
New wave of real-time collaboration arrives?
Blog We've seen Google Wave make a splash (sorry) and, together with collaboration tool Google Docs, you could live and work without ever loading any software. One new startup, oneDrum, reckons it's got an answer: keep the applications and documents you...
[June 17, 2009, 9:43]
Google denies ownership of users' words
News Google has denied claims that the terms and conditions for its Google Docs service means it owns any user's content published in the application. Google Docs is part of the GoogleApps platform, which offers a web-based calendar, email and document...
[September 12, 2007, 9:39]
Google wants businesses to have faith in the cloud
News A large number of Google Docs users couldn't use their online word processor or presentations for about an hour last Tuesday. We don't have an SLA yet for Google Calendar or Google Docs, but it's something we're moving quickly towards," said Rishi...
[July 14, 2008, 17:43]
Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters
News Spammers had already been making use of Google Docs, Google Page Creator and Google Calendar as spam-hosting facilities, but Google Sites is a recent addition, according to the MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008.
[August 5, 2008, 15:03]
