Friday, June 27, 2008

Sivaraman's Column-1: A look into Google Docs

(Good morning to all of you! This is Suri from Karaikudi. The time of 09.10 hrs IST. Here is a new column, which I hope you will enjoy and benefit, especially beginners.
My young friend, Mr.K.Sivaraman, is about to complete his M.C.A. He is a soft and kind-hearted person. Taking advantage of his helping tendency, I have been exploiting his knowledge of software and Net. I have requested him to regularly contribute a column in this blog and he has very kindly agreed to it. The first article appears below.)

Sivaraman’s Column-1:
You want to keep your files safely and access them from anywhere?

Google has come up with yet another wonderful feature, viz., “Google Docs”.

1. The first advantage is it is entirely FREE.
2. You can personalize and have your own “Google Docs”, which you alone or people who have your permission can alone access/edit.
3. You can convert any document file into PDF or RTF or HTML format.
4. You can upload every single document into your Google Docs if it does not exceed 500 KB.
5. If the document is in PDF format and you want to upload it, the size should not exceed 10 MB.
6. You can create spreadsheets and can convert them to XLS and HTML.
7. It also accepts popular file formats like ODT, ODS, CSV, PPT etc.
8. You can create folders and organize your files into various folders.
9. As it has autosaving feature, power failures and system breakdowns will not affect our work; they will remain safe.
10. As for sharing, you can share your files with anybody by directly instant mailing them from Google Docs itself.
11. For Bloggers, it is a boon. They can go to Google Docs and read for themselves the other interesting and useful features. For example, you can post directly from Google Docs.
12. You don’t have to HTML as it will convert files into HTML itself and then you can directly publish in your blog or website. Likewise, you can remove postings from your blog/s or website/s you want to delete from Google Docs itself.
13. The interface is user-friendly and anybody can easily understand without difficult and start using it right away.

Personally, I found it to be very fast, including upload and download. Conversion is also very fast. I would like go deeper into Google Docs and shall come back to you with more interesting and useful features.

Bye, see you soon again!

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