Thursday, September 20, 2007

Week 8 Thing 18 Workd productivity tools Google docs

Two of us examined google docs and spreadsheets. It seemed like it would be a very useful way for creating documents if you were traveling and couldn't access your home computer. Most of the features were fairly comparable to MS Word, but there were some quirky things.

The symbols look similar to gmail. I added a quote. It makes a special box to put the quote in. But then, it didn't put it in the box. The minute I started typing it the text popped out of the box.

Removing extra blank lines is an interesting feature. You won't get extra blank pages sent to a printer.
Google docs would be easy to share with others. Tables were a little weird. If nothing was in the box, the box didn't show up.

You can upload from your computer or a disk.

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