Google Docs

dude you have some cool videos lol

or you can download open office.

Pretty nice to have online editing abilities for documents.

Turkers have been using google doc spreedsheat to keep track of the NowNow race for more than a year. For any work related doc that need to be shared between a group of peoples it a amazing.

hmm Google DOCS doesnt support Safari and Opera :(

In Opera you can mask as IE or Firefox.

no OPERA support…..fail

What if your internets goes down in the middle of writing a mission-critical report?

What if the power goes down along with the backup generators and you can’t use a computer at all??? HUH??? WHAT THEN

Google Docs are great for collaboration, but Google’s document formatting options are rather limited. I use Google Docs for managing documents which I share with friends, but only for documents with simple layouts. For more complex documents, Microsoft Live Office or another file sharing solution (used only to store the document) is probably a better option.

Chris,

I’ve been using Google Docs (mostly the word processing and spreadsheets) for months to collaborate with teammates on MBA projects for school. I just recently tried Google Presentations to do a presentation for a class.

While I love this in concept, there are two major problems with Google Docs which keep me from recommending it wholeheartedly.

1) Formatting issues. When you upload Word Docs into Google Docs, I have often encountered major formatting issues. I find that Google Docs is good to “collect” information, but that the final “pretty version” still needs to be done in Word to make it look right. Footnotes via Google Docs are impossible… don’t even try them.

I found the same problem with Google Presentations. I had uploaded an existing Powerpoint into Google Presentations to find that hyperlinks (to videos), images, and other things were totally garbled or moved to the wrong slides.

If Google Docs doesn’t improve on this functionality, I can’t see using it for important documents that need to look nice.

2) Collaboration issues. I don’t know how to describe this problem very well but it mostly happens in Google Docs when more than one person is editing (or even looking at) a single document at the same time. If person one is viewing the document and person two is making changes, sometimes the changes that person two is making doesn’t get saved. I have encountered this many times while trying to edit a doc with a person who is sitting next to me with her laptop next to mine while viewing the same doc. An error message saying “Your recent changes won’t be saved” pops up. I have noticed that this problem is worsened with more collaborators. It gets REALLY frustrating.

One of the major benefits of Google Docs is the ability to collaborate; this really needs to be addressed as it really detracts from the user experience. When I have had (repeated) problems like this, I have resorted to downloading the file back down to Word and doing it the old-fashioned way).

There are a number of other smaller issues, mostly dealing with functionality, but for now I don’t mind them.

Another thing to note: Google Spreadsheets is nowhere near as powerful as Excel is; some of the formulas and calculations you might be used to in Excel do not work in Google Spreadsheets. (For now I have avoided using Google Spreadsheets for anything that isn’t a giant list.)

Google Docs is great for documents, and spreadsheets, but Presentation support has a LONG way to go. No effects, no transitions and, worst of all, you CAN’T download the presentation back to powerpoint after you’ve edited it. What’s the point?

openoffice

i gave it 5 stares but 1.30 sec i dont know :( :)

I agree. That is why I wish Google would create an offline application.

cool, but it would be nice if you could do a video in the future actually showing off some of the features of google docs. and i’d just like to add, the share feature is actually really useful for group projects!

Brilliant !

That sounded like a ad. XD

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Not only old as hell, but you already talked about it.

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You are a complete genuis..I just want to give you props now before you end having a hit show..lol Thanks for the tips bro seriously.

-Shawn

lol i like your sarcasm dude :D

Freez it at: 0:59

Can documents be uploaded en masse in a zip file?

Sorry, but IBM Lotus Symphony kicks everythings ass.

Can multiple users work concurrently on the document, such as different chapters? Or is it limited to one user access at a time?

Multiple users can work on document at once as far as I understand.

But I don’t want Google owning my work, and I don’t know if I’m necessarily going to have an internet connection. The former is the most important factor that this is destined for failure.

Oh, and the Presentations software doesn’t even let you bring in chunks of text at a time, or animate them. Completely misses the point.