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| Mar 2, 2016 | Google Docs gets 6 new templates courtesy of QuickBooks, Reading Rainbow, others | Google today announced that Google Docs, the web and mobile app for composing web-based documents, is getting a few new templates. These are in addition to the document templates Google introduced last year.
But the new ones are special, Go... |
| Feb 25, 2016 | Google Docs Will Now Let You Type, Edit And Format Documents With Voice – No Keyboard Required | Dave Calpito, Tech Times 25 February 2016, 05:02 am
Google is now making things a lot easier for heavy users of Google Docs to type, edit and format documents. Google Docs on the Chrome browser now allows users to do everything hands-free –... |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Google Docs now lets you edit and format text using your voice | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago.
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| Feb 24, 2016 | Google Docs now lets you edit and format text using your voice | Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago.
“We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter, or even write the next gr... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | Google Forms Gets Templates, Add-On Support And More | Google Forms, the company’s tool for creating and analyzing surveys, is getting a major update today. Google is adding a slew of new features to the service that range from support for templates to new options for analyzing surveys.
Google’... |
| Sep 3, 2015 | Google Docs Adds Research Tool, Voice Typing, Templates: Ready For School? | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 03 September 2015, 09:09 am
As the school year is about to kick off, Google said that it has added several new features to Google Docs to make it easier for students to finish their schoolwork.
Google announced the ... |
| Aug 5, 2015 | Google Slides Now Lets You Present From Your Android Device To Hangouts Video Calls | Earlier this year, Google Slides — the company’s PowerPoint competitor — gained the ability to cast presentations to any screen with Chromecast or AirPlay. Today it’s expanding this feature by also letting you present from any Android phone... |
| Jun 15, 2015 | Google Sheets gets data labels, customizable data points, and advanced filtering | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jun 15, 2015 | Google Sheets gets data labels, customizable data points, and advanced filtering | Google is making several updates to Google Sheets, the company’s web-based spreadsheet service. Now you can add specific numbers to charts and change the look of specific data points in charts.
Your data points can also now be shown with ci... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | Google Adds Chromecast And AirPlay Support To Slides | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 11 June 2015, 05:06 pm
Google's online document offerings have long been considered one of the easiest ways to create and edit documents, especially for the small price of nothing.
Not only that, but Google i... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Google Docs For Mobile Gets Real-Time Spell-Checking, Touch ID Support To Protect Documents | Google launched a couple of nifty updates to the mobile versions of its Docs, Sheets and Slides productivity apps today. These include new editing and security tools that will make using the apps on iOS and Android a bit easier.
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| May 2, 2012 | Google beefs up Apps Scripts for Docs | reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating
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| May 2, 2012 | Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Templates And More | Google today announced that it is bringing web fonts to Google Docs. Thanks to this update, you can now use 450 new fonts in your Google documents. These are the same 450 fonts Google already features on its Web Fonts site for web designers... |
| May 2, 2012 | Google Docs puts design font and center | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google added a whopping collection of 450 fonts t... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Google Docs Dumps the Dictionary for the Whole Web | Google Docs now has improved spell-checking that draws from the whole Web instead of a fixed dictionary. The spell-checking in Docs will now constantly evolve as Google’s search robots crawl the Web and receive new queries from users.
Just ... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Improved Google Docs Android app allows for easy on-the-go editing | Smartphones and tablets facilitate on-the-go productivity and never-ending workdays. The latest refresh of Google Docs for Android seems to put emphasis on both.
The Google Docs app for Android has been enhanced today with collaboration and... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Improved Google Docs Android app allows for easy on-the-go editing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Smartphones and tablets facilitate on-the-go productivity and never-ending workdays. The latest refresh of Google Docs for Android seem... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | With New Google Docs Presentations, Why Use PowerPoint? | Google Docs takes another bite out of expensive Microsoft Office software today with a complete do-over of Presentations. Google Docs slideshows can now be edited live and simultaneously with a team. It enables viewing of revision history, ... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Google Docs for Android Gets 3-Column Redesign | Google has just announced a redesign for Google Docs on Android. The new interface uses a three-column view displaying filters and collections on the left, the document list in the middle and document details on the right.
The Google Docs A... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Google Brings State-of-the-Art Dynamic Layouts to Blogger | Google just launched dynamic views for Blogger, its free blogging platform, and they are something else. Powered by AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, these new themes for Blogger users are heavy-duty, interactive designs, not mere blog templates. The a... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Google Announces Sweeping Accessibility Improvements for Visually Challenged Users | Google has announced a new initiative to increase accessibility for visually challenged users on its major Web services. In advance of the upcoming school year, Google is rolling out accessibility improvements to Docs, Sites and Calendars. ... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Office 365, Google Docs go down again, could give pause to the cloud-wary | Photograph by final gather reader comments 73 with 56 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 2, 2011 | Google begins killing off support for older browsers -- well, not that old | Wouldn't it be funny if Google turned out to be the Internet's security cop? That's one way to interpret the search and information giant's continued push to clear away aging web browsers. First Internet Explorer 6, now Firefox 3.5, IE7 and... |
| May 17, 2011 | Google Docs Adds Support for Pivot Tables | Today Google announced support for pivot tables to the Google Docs spreadsheet application. According to Wikipedia, pivot tables “can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. It di... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | Native Google Docs Android app could be a game changer | Google has released a slick new Android application for Google Docs that makes managing documents easy and adds the ability to convert words in images into editable text.
Editing documents is still done exclusively on the web, but the added... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | Google Docs Gets An Android App (With Optical Character Recognition) | It makes sense that the Google suite of products would have a nicer version on Android than on iPhone, right? The newly released Google Docs app for Android is certainly a testament to that.
Google added the ability to edit your Google Docs... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Will Hotmail Get Offline Storage Before Gmail? | Microsoft is working on an HTML5-enabled version of its Hotmail Web application, according to a new report from ZDNet. The updated version will deliver offline storage capabilities, which means webmail users will be able to access their ema... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Google adds comment streams to Docs | Google has introduced a new comment stream feature in its online document sharing and editing program, Google Docs, in an effort to promote the service as an online collaboration tool.
The new commenting system amounts to a chat stream for ... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Google expands social collaboration features in Docs | Expanding on moves first made last April to make Google Docs more collaborative, Google on Wednesday further expanded on social aspects of the online document service. Comments are now "seamless," the company says, and easier to m... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Google Docs Makes Commenting More Collaborative With Structured Discussions | Google Docs has always been an easy way to collaborate over a documents because many users can access the documents at the same time. But today, Google is stepping up the collaboration factor with more structured, threaded discussions. Whil... |
| Feb 27, 2011 | Burning Chrome | Google made a few interesting announcements this week. First, Google Docs Viewer support for a sheaf of new document types, including Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop and PostScript. Second, Chrome’s new ability to run background apps that run ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Print Documents and Emails from Your Phone With Google Cloud Print | Google officially announced the roll-out of Cloud Print today, which will enable wireless printing of documents and emails from mobile devices.
As we reported in November, the impending arrival of Cloud Print was revealed somewhat by accide... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Google Docs’ Offline Support Returns (Well, Next Year) | Yesterday at Google’s Chrome event, the company demonstrated a new feature in Google Docs: offline support. Actually, the functionality itself isn’t new – Google Docs had offline support in the past, until it was removed in April of this ye... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Uploads | Google just announced it’s extending the drag-and-drop functionality in its online office suite, Google Docs. A few weeks ago, it introduced an image uploader for docs that worked the same way as the new feature does – you simply drag a fil... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Google Docs editing finally comes to iPhone, iPad, Android | reader comments 22 with 17 posters participating
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Those who depend on Google Docs know how frustrating it is when you want to make a simple change from an iPhone, but can't ... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Google Docs editing finally comes to mobile browsers — but how useful is it? | Dear Google: If you keep this up, I won’t have any more excuses to be unproductive on my phone in transit.
Google announced today that Google Docs users can now edit their files in mobile browsers on iPhones and devices running Google’s And... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Cloud Print “Coming Soon” to Google Docs | Google Docs rolled out a new feature today, with the addition of a “Version history” for uploaded files. Now you can upload new versions of the same file, and the URL and sharing and folder settings will remain the same.
To use this new fea... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Google Docs Launches Snazzy New Chart Maker | The Google Docs team unveiled an attractive new chart creation tool today for Google’s spreadsheet tool. New features include automatically recommended chart types based on the data you’ve input, more control over colors and imagery, advanc... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Google Docs Gets a Taste of Wave with Collaborative Highlighting | Google may have killed Wave (prematurely by some accounts), but it has added a little bit of real-time collaboration to one of its flagship offerings, Google Docs, with the addition of collaborative highlighting.
The new feature is straight... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Now You Can Search For Google Docs From Within Gmail (And It Catches Typos, Too) | Google may be synonymous with search, but some of the search functionality in its Apps products is sadly lacking — if you want to search for something in Google Docs, Calendar, or Gmail, you’ve had to do it from within its respective app. T... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Google Docs Adds Translation for 53 Languages | From Wikipedia articles to visual recognition and translation with Google Goggles, Google is constantly working to rebuild the Tower of Babel and enable frictionless multi-lingual communication.
Its latest effort brings translation to Googl... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Google Introduces Better Word and PowerPoint Previews for Google Docs Mobile | Just last week, Google introduced better Microsoft Word previews for the desktop version of Gmail. Today, Google also launched a similar feature for the mobile version of Google Docs, the company’s online office suite. Now, Android, iPhone ... |
| May 11, 2010 | Google Touts Alternative to Office Upgrades | News Google Touts Alternative to Office Upgrades By Kurt MackieMay 11, 2010
Google proposed that its suite of online applications can serve as an alternative to the traditional Microsoft Office upgrade cycle.
In a Tuesday blog post headline... |
| May 11, 2010 | Google Touts Alternative to Office Upgrades | News Google Touts Alternative to Office Upgrades By Kurt MackieMay 11, 2010
Google proposed that its suite of online applications can serve as an alternative to the traditional Microsoft Office upgrade cycle.
In a Tuesday blog post headline... |
| Mar 7, 2010 | Betting On The Oscars? Google Has A Super Simple Docs Template To Use. | Tonight is the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Some people watch the show for the movies. Some watch it for the glamor. And some, watch it to gamble. And Google is making that easier than ever.
While the show is almost always way too long, one ... |
| Feb 18, 2010 | Google Docs gets a web clipboard | Google has made life a bit better for hardcore Google Docs users. Today, the company unveiled a new web clipboard feature for the Docs suite. It allows users to copy items to a cloud-based clipboard from any Docs application, and then paste... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Google to Launch Server-Side Clipboard for Docs | One of the features that Google’s online office program Google Docs lacks is a cloud-based version of Microsoft Office’s “clipboard” feature. Although you can copy and paste when using Docs, it’s a much simpler procedure. The keyboard short... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Crusade against IE6 begins | Internet giant Google has joined up with a number of web developers in requesting Microsoft abandon support for its IE6 browsing software.
The company said its Google Apps and other Google Sites would begin phasing out support for the brows... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Shared folders make Google Docs better for teamwork | Google has announced that its online word processor Docs just got a little better for team collaboration, with a new feature that allows users to share entire folders.
This is a nice tweak — previously, you could invite users to collaborate... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | Conducting Data-Rich Surveys Just Got Easier With Forms In Google Docs | Last year, Google rolled out forms that link into Google Doc’s spreadsheets, providing elementary database-style form support for its online office suite. Forms basically let you add data to a spreadsheet without having to enter it directly... |
| Jul 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Why Amazon Bought Zappos, IBM’s Internet of Things, The Mythical GDrive, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of ... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Will Google Chrome OS Bring Us the Mythical GDrive? | Last week, Google announced some interface changes to their Google Docs service that are designed to make finding your files easier. The changes are relatively minor – the “shared with” list has gone away, there’s a new “Sharing” menu, and ... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Google Wants You To Know A Google Docs Redesign Is Coming (I Wonder Why) | On the Google Docs blog today, the company took the time to make a non-announcement. Basically, there’s a bunch of words that bury the real story: That Google Docs will soon be launching a “brand new shiny interface.”
Hmmm. I wonder why. Ob... |
| Jun 1, 2009 | Google Docs snipes at Office with .docx, .xlsx format uploads | Docs, Google’s online word processing application, has gotten a little bit more useful today. It now lets you import files from Microsoft Office 2007, including Word files in the .docx format and Excel files in the .xlsx format.
This isn’t ... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | More Security Loopholes Found In Google Docs | Security consultant Ade Barkah checked in with us to alert us to a couple of serious security issues associated to Google Docs, the web-based office software from the world’s most famous search engine company, giving a whole new meaning to ... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Roundup: Google’s layoffs, Pick Your Five’s popularity, and more | Here’s the latest (layoff heavy) action:
Google lays off 200 employees — Most of the cuts are happening in the sales and marketing departments, where Google has over-invested.
Pick Your Five application surges on Facebook — The app from Liv... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Google Docs Inserts Drawings | Google Docs just got an amazing new feature called insert drawing. With it you can now create and insert drawings directly into your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The drawing creation tool is easy to use, and supports sn... |
| Feb 16, 2009 | Mobile Google Docs finally gains some spreadsheet features | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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| Feb 13, 2009 | Roundup: Google improves mobile spreadsheets, pirates plunder the App Store and more | Here’s the latest action:
Google improves mobile access to spreadsheets — Now, instead of just viewing Google Docs spreadsheets on your phone, you can add, edit, sort, and filter.
Pirates run rampant in Apple’s App Store — This article prof... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Now You Can Edit Google Spreadsheets On Android and iPhones | Google Spreadsheets can now be edited on Android mobile phones and iPhones. Up until now, all Google Docs (online docs, spreadsheets, and presentations) could only be viewed on mobile phones. Editable spreadsheets work inside the mobile bro... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Telcos Urged to Join Google Rather Than Fighting It | How far does Google's reach extend? Far enough that telecom companies might consider giving up the battle right now and preemptively forming partnerships with the search giant, a recent Gartner Research report suggests.
As Gartner sees it, ... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | Making Google Products Easier To Use Is Not 'Encouraging Stealing' | Recently, Google Docs unveiled a number of new features including a built-in way to use Google Image Search to find pictures to complement written documents. Many people already use Google Image Search to find suitable graphics, regardless ... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Google Launching ToDo List Product? | TechCrunch reader Nicolas Hoizey noticed a blog post on the official Google Docs Blog today written by Andrew Cheng, a Google Marketing Manager. Hoizey sent us the NetNewsWire screen shot above (click for large view).
The post, based on the... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Google to phase in offline access options for Docs | One of the most innovative additions that Google may be making to its applications suite would, in a bygone era, be one of the most basic features: the ability to save locally.
One of the factors that makes Web applications convenient is th... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Google Expands Docs Offline | News Google Expands Docs Offline By Wyatt KashApril 01, 2008 Google's over-the-Internet software for editing, uploading and sharing office documents, known as Google Docs , can now be used offline, Google software engineer, Philip Tucker sa... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Google Expands Docs Offline | News Google Expands Docs Offline By Wyatt KashApril 01, 2008 Google's over-the-Internet software for editing, uploading and sharing office documents, known as Google Docs , can now be used offline, Google software engineer, Philip Tucker sa... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Google Docs Inches Offline | Google’s Web-based word processor, Google Docs, can now be used offline to view and edit documents in your browser. That means you no longer need to be connected to the Internet to write a letter or draft an agreement. When you connect agai... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Google Finally Launches Offline Access for Docs | Google announced today that they would be adding the ability for users to work offline in their popular web office suite Google Docs. Offline support will be powered by the Google Gears API, which is a browser extension that allows develope... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Google Docs adds offline support. Microsoft quakes? | For all the talk Google Docs gets as being a potential “Microsoft Office Killer”, it has thus far lacked one crucial component: Offline access. That is going to change very soon as Robert Scoble learned today in a talk with Ken Norton, a pr... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | Will you be my Twitter Valentine? | update
At approximately 12:01am the Internet started erupting with love today.
First example: Twitter, down on and off most of the day – as has seemingly become the norm in recent weeks (our coverage) – came back online with a new feature j... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Roundup: Obama loses Silicon Valley, Time Warner exec may split AOL, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Obama loses Silicon Valley
2. Time Warner executive may split AOL
3. Microsoft’s Yahoo bid drops
4. Facebook rewards good apps
5. China to take down firewall?
6. Israeli web companies make their pitch
7. Keirets... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Google Docs Gets Forms, More Access Like Little By Little | Google has announced support for forms that link into Google Doc’s spreadsheets, providing elementary Access/ DB style form support for its online office suite.
The new service allows users to add data to a spreadsheet without having to ent... |
| Jan 4, 2008 | Google Presentations Introduces Embedded Slide Shows | Google Docs just added some cool new features to its Web-based Presentation software: slide shows that you can embed anywhere on the Web. Check it out below:
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| В Google Docs появится буфер обмена | В Google Docs появится буфер обмена
18 Февраля, 2010, 09:45
Надежда Баловсяк
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Пользователи сервиса работы с документами Google Docs получат новую функцию – онлайновый буфер обмена, — сообщается в блоге Google. Фрагменты в этом онлайново... |
| В Google Docs появилась возможность комментировать с помощью @mention | В Google Docs появилась возможность комментировать с помощью @mention
16 Марта, 2011, 17:11
Максим Кутик
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Сервис Google Docs дополнился новыми возможностями, сообщает официальный блог. Теперь, так же, как в Twitter или в Facebook, в Goog... |
| В Google Docs представили интеграцию с Google+ и новые инструменты для работы с документами | В Google Docs представили интеграцию с Google+ и новые инструменты для работы с документами
08 Февраля, 2012, 11:20
Александр Мельник
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Команда сервиса Google Docs объявила о ряде нововведений в рамках работы пользвателей с документами и ... |
| Google Docs обновил версию для интернет-планшетов на базе Android | Google Docs обновил версию для интернет-планшетов на базе Android
06 Октября, 2011, 13:41
Александр Мельник
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Google Docs обновил версию своего приложения для интернет-планшетов. Изменения коснулись клиента для планшетов на базе Android.
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