By JortK on March 12, 2010
The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organizing our events and not enough time discussing, debating and watching movies. To take the hard work out of planning, we turned to Google Apps Script, [...]
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By JortK on February 23, 2010
We want copying and pasting content within Google Docs to just work. So, today we’re launching a new web clipboard that improves copy and paste in Google Docs. This new clipboard temporarily stores items you’ve copied in the cloud, then allows you to paste them with proper formatting into other Google Docs. Say you work [...]
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By JortK on February 14, 2010
Many of you have told us you’d like consistent and intuitive features across all the Google Docs editors, so today, we’re happy to launch a couple of improvements to the way saving works in all of Google Docs. Now it’s much easier to tell, at a glance, when documents need to be saved, when documents [...]
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By JortK on February 13, 2010
We all want important life moments — like graduating from school, getting married or having your first baby — to be perfect. For many couples, your wedding is a chance to celebrate with everyone you care about; it’s also the largest, most complicated party you’ll ever host. From tracking guest RSVPs, to picking the right [...]
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By JortK on January 25, 2010
Starting today, more colorful emails might be waiting in your friends’ and colleagues’ inboxes if you’ve shared Google documents with them. Check out the difference: Old Email New Email In addition to the visual update, the new emails showcase your custom message rather than placing it at the bottom. Your buddy won’t miss that important [...]
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By JortK on January 23, 2010
The Google Chrome team launched beta support for extensions on Tuesday. We didn’t want to miss the extension party, so we created a Google Docs extension. The Google Docs PDF/Powerpoint Viewer makes it easy to preview PDFs, Powerpoint presentations, and other documents you find across the web in the Google Docs viewer, instead of downloading [...]
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By JortK on January 23, 2010
The Google Apps team has had another productive couple of weeks. We released a number of helpful new features, and were happy to welcome new customers to the future of computing. Upload any file to Google Docs Last Tuesday, we began rolling out the ability for you to upload any type of file to Google [...]
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By JortK on January 14, 2010
Over the next few weeks, we’re rolling out the ability to upload all file types to the cloud through Google Docs, giving you one place where you can upload and access your key files online. Because Google Docs now supports files up to 250 MB in size, which is larger than the attachment limit on [...]
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By JortK on January 12, 2010
Sort by relevance The first is the addition of relevance ranking in your Docs list search results. Until now, anytime you searched for a document, the results were sorted by “last modified date”. Now, your search results will display the items most relevant to your search at the top of the list. We also added [...]
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By JortK on January 9, 2010
As the new year begins, we wanted to reflect on 2009 and highlight our favorite additions to Google Docs and Sites. We’ve shed the beta label and added more than 45 new features including: Shared folders to simplify collaboration with friends and colleagues The Google Docs viewer, making it easy to view more files in [...]
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