The world of online office applications was a fantastic discovery. It is one thing knowing off online applications and another when actually using and exploring the details.
I first had a look at Google Documents. Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms. My first thought was how they would react to documents created on other computers with various other office applications. How would it handle compatibility problems? Security of information? Sharing of documents?
Within 15 minutes of use I was convinced that I would make use of Google Documents in future. The auto-saving feature when working on a document is a great feature. Not loosing information before actually saving the document.
I uploaded some documents from my computer: a word document, a PowerPoint presentation and a spreadsheet. I could open and edit and save without a problem.
I also created several documents. A word document that I will publish on my webblog and two spreadsheets. One spreadsheet as part of my Google Documents exercise and another containing the gmail addresses of my colleagues.
I have send an invitation to my colleagues and friends to take a look at the documents and to add information to it. While I had the spreadsheet open I saw one of my guests opening the document. I could see who it was and what they were typing in real time. Fantastic! I also get an update on the last user of the document and the time that they saved it.
Looking forward to using Google Documents in future.
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