Another Useful Google Tool: Google Docs

Posted by webchicklet in Tools on October 20th, 2009 | no responses

Last week I wrote about the new and improved Google Keyword Tool beta, and how it is one of most useful google tools for any blogger wanting to write useful, targeted posts that generate new search engine traffic. It seems alot of web surfers don’t know about the amazing number of useful Google Tools and Apps availabe to them! So this week, Webchicklet introduces you to Google Docs.

Google Docs is Web-based and includes a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation all in one easy to use package, offered by Google, and best of all, it’s totally free! It allows you to create and edit documents online and share them with other users, if you need/want to. This webchicklet doesn’t use it to share docs with other people. I store all my frequently referred to documents on Google Docs so if I’m traveling out of town/country and need to refer to a document, I just log into Google Docs and open up the document! This is the most useful feature for me! I also can open up documents in Google Docs that are emailed to me through Gmail, which is great when I’m on a public computer that doesn’t have Microsoft Word or Excel, or any other word processor/spreadsheet software.

The great thing about Google docs is that you can edit and save the documents in several formats including: OpenOffice, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc. So no matter what format someone sends me a document, I can usually open it with Google Docs. It’s not all sunshine and lollipops: You can only download/upload one document at a time to Google Docs, and I believe the documents cannot exceed 500k in size, and embedded images are limited to a max of 2 Mb.

A recent new and useful feature of Google Docs is the ability to share selected folders! This makes it easy to manage the docs you want to keep private and those that you want to share with others. Sweet!

Here’s a snapshot of what Google Docs looks like:

google docs

So next time you need to access a document or spreadsheet online, look no further than Google Docs. Give it a try, and as usual let me know how you use Google Docs, or let me know of any other online document managers you may use that are even better than Google Docs!

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