Friday, January 29, 2010

Using Google Docs


Google has many different products which they offer to the public absolutely for free, and Google Docs is one of them. This is basically a 3-in-1 replacement for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. If you have those programs and even if you like them, you still might want to give Google Docs a try for various reasons. And if you don't have those programs, then Google Docs is definitely something you want to take a look at.

With Google docs you can create documents similar to Word Documents, and you even get the help of a spell-checker, a word count, and all the tools to format your text, line spacing and more. You can easily insert images, comments, footnotes, headers, tables, links, and a table of contents.

You can also create spreadsheets which are a must for every internet marketer or business owner to keep track of their business information. What I really like about the Google spreadsheets is that you can create multiple sheets within one main sheet. This makes it extremely easy to keep all your information neatly stored in one file.

Google Docs also allows you to create presentations similar to what you can create with PowerPoint. You have easy access to all kinds of templates and forms to create resumes, schedules, invoices, and calendars to keep track of your events.

Google also allows you to easily collaborate your work with your employees or co-workers. You decide who has access to the files and who can edit your files. You can also see who has made any changes, when the changes were made, and you decide whether you will go with the changes or not.

When you are finished with your documents you can leave them where they are in your Google account, or you can download them as a regular file, text, Word, Excel, HTML, CSS, OpenOffice, or as a PDF file. Each program will give you slightly different options as to what kind of file you can download it as.

The best thing about Google Docs is that you can keep all your files neatly organized in one place; all your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and open them all from on location. 

Plus there is nothing to download; all the programs, tools, and templates are all accessed through your Google account.

Last but not least, because these files are stored in your Google account, and not your computer, you can have access to your files from anywhere in the world where there is a connection to the internet, and it is completely secure.

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