The summer interns just finished adding some nice enhancements to Google Docs. But Google didn’t leave it at that for this year. They have announced a couple of other new features, including the most requested feature:
Google Docs has long let users share documents between one another, but folders–a feature Google begrudgingly added to Docs back in mid-2007, has largely been left out of the picture. That changed on Monday, as users are now able to share entire folders of documents, spreadsheets and presentations with other people.
The benefit here, is that the permissions settings for a shared folder controls the individual file permissions of all the documents inside of it, meaning you don’t have to go through and change each document’s viewing permissions one at a time. It’s also an easy way to start working on a document, then share it with a select group of individuals without having to remember to invite them in the first place.
Users can now share entire folders with groups of other users.
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Google says the feature was one of the most requested features from its users, as voted on at its product ideas voting page. Google has also used this feedback to upgrad its Docs file uploader to accept multiple files at once. Just like users are able to do in Gmail, the Docs uploader now lets you pick multiple files from your hard drive, then see how far along each one is as it’s uploaded. The new process makes it much easier for new users to move entire folders into Google’s cloud, which could be handy if, or rather when Google decides to open up Docs to more file types.
Docs users can now upload multiple files at once, making it much easier to simply dump an entire folder from your hard drive into Google's cloud.
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Google Docs‘ summer interns this summer were tasked with working on improvements and additions to the service geared toward students.
The results of their work, now available to try out, include new features such as an equation editor, superscripts and subscripts, document translation, improvements to surveys, and more outlining options.
Google Docs' new equation editor.
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While none of these features is groundbreaking on its own, collectively, they help round out Google’s productivity suite, fulfilling some specific needs that probably prevented some from using the service.
A lot of people complain about the minimal feature set of Google Docs, as compared to market leader Microsoft Office, which got a 16-year head start on Google’s offering and is sometimes criticized for being feature-cluttered. Students comprise one of the core groups of users and potential users of Docs, so it makes sense to build out the feature set to support the kinds of word-processing, spreadsheet-tweaking, and presentation-building tasks that they typically need to perform.
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Does fear of Google downtime haunt your company?
Google Apps customers can now employ a sort of safety net to protect corporate documents and files in Google Docs. Called CloudSave, users are able to conduct legal discovery and “un-delete” previously deleted documents as needed.
CloudSave comes courtesy of Salvair, a company that works to increase organizational efficiency through cloud computing solutions. They recently announced the release of version 2 software for Google Docs Archival and eDiscovery.
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Google Docs Get eDiscovery and Archiving Support
