Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Filed in archive Online Services on July 3, 2007

I have written before about Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and it should be no surprise from what I have written about Google Docs and Spreadsheets that I have now been working on documents in Google Docs and Spreadsheets since before it was owned by Google. I have written approximately 175 documents in "Writely" (as it was named before Google took it over) and then in Google Docs and Spreadsheets since 14 November 2005.

Perhaps the coolest thing available in Docs and Spreadsheets is being able to Save (or export) the document being worked on into the popular PDF format. It is so simple to use this feature, just like saving a document in its own format.

But not only can you save in PDF format, you also can save in DOC (Word format), ordinary TXT, and in the OpenOffice format ODT.

While I do not use the collaboration feature very much, it is always nice to be able to open a document for collaborative writing if the need arises.

There are some limitations in constructing documents of any great length which is neither here nor there when writing the majority of documents of no more than 4,000 words. In fact, most documents I write possibly are not more than 900 words.

To have all my documents saved in one location and saved since starting to use the service this is the most appreciated feature. I do not even have to remember what a document is called or filed as due to the fully-fledged search function famous in other Google venues as well. Simply search Docs for a few keywords likely to be found in a document and here comes a list of documents to review.