3/27/07

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour


Finally had the opportunity to use Google Docs with multiple users, in different locations, editing the same document at the same time. Completely seamless. I was impressed.

I sit on the executive of a non-profit society. We have to get a presentation ready for a board meeting. I created the document, used everybody's email to invite them to collaborate and away we went. Every change automatically saves a new version of the document allowing you to see who made what change and roll back to any version of the document.

A gmail address is not required though if you collaborate regularly it would be useful since you could then use the Google Chat (IM client) built into email and/or Google Talk (voice over ip) while working.

Documents can be uploaded and downloaded in MS office, Open Office and rich text, comma seperated value formats.

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