1eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Users can now access their documents and spreadsheets from a single control panel. The landing page shows a combined list of documents, along with the owners and contributors for each docume
2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Uploading
Users can upload either a word processing document (.doc, .txt, .rdf and other formats) or a spreadsheet (.csv, .xls and .ods formats) to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – E-mail them in
A new feature is the ability to e-mail information to a personalized e-mail address and have it appear as a document in the control panel.
4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Save As
Files in the word processing application can be saved in PDF, Word, OpenOffice and other file formats.
5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Word Processing
Google Docs & Spreadsheets word processing capability comes from Googles earlier acquisition of Upstartles Writely.
6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Insert
Users can insert items such as an image, link, comment or table into their word processing documents. It is still impossible to insert a spreadsheet, though.
7eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Revise
Google Docs & Spreadsheets tracks revisions, allowing users to go back and work on earlier versions of a document.
8eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Collaboration
It is easy to share documents with others: Simply enter a colleagues e-mail address and he or she will receive a link to the document. An RSS feed of the changes is also available.
9eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Publish it
Users also can publish their documents to the Internet for the world to see. (This function will probably make enterprises nervous.)
10eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Spell Check
Users of Gmail will find the spell-check functionality in Google Docs familiar.
11eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Word document
While we had no problems importing an existing .doc document created using Microsoft Office 2003, the formatting in the document was nonexistent in Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
12eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Spreadsheets
Google Spreadsheets maintains its earlier look.
13eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Discuss
Google Spreadsheets has built-in instant messaging capabilities that allow collaborators to discuss a spreadsheet as they work on it. Similar functionality is not yet available in Google Docs.
14eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Collaborate
As with the word processor, the spreadsheet allows the owner of a document to share it with others. The spreadsheet does it in a different way, however, showing that, while the two applications share a control panel, there is no interaction between
15eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – E-mail it
eWEEK Labs e-mailed a sentence to our personalized Google Docs & Spreadsheets e-mail address to automatically create a word processing document.
16eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Worked
We found our document in the control panel, and, when we clicked on it, the document appeared in Google Docs.
17eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Published online
We then published the same document online for the world to see.
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