Googles Apps Suite Gains Presentation Component

Your friendly neighborhood Google Docs dropdown menu now sports a new application option.

The look of a blank presentation in Google Docs is more or less the same as in Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org.

After dragging a text box around the screen, and then hitting Control-Z to undo my actions, Googles presentation app instead undid the earlier text Id typed.

I was disappointed to find that PDF export was not among my File Menu options. I frequently convert PPTs to PDF for more agile viewing.

Googles Presentation Tool can work with PPT files, but the formatting is not always spot-on.

As with the rest of Googles online office suite, publishing your presentations for broad consumption is fairly easy.

Adding collaborators to your presentation project is also rather easy.

Googles very good revision control feature is one of the bright spots of its presentation tool, and of its suite as a whole.

I could select from a set of requisitely ugly-looking slide templates.

I could assume control of the slide deck, as well as surrender that control to a fellow attendee. Theres also a nice chat box with which to coordinate such handovers.

Googles presentation application makes it easy to e-mail out a copy of the slide deck.

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