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Google updates Docs & Spreadsheets
Is it too much to ask for a day without Google related news? The company's always buying another startup, redesigning its search page, or launching a new service, and frankly we'd be getting sick of it if we didn't find so many of these services so useful.The latest update is an overhaul of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The online office suite has undergone a major redesign, with a much more polished look and feel, including new icons and an easier at-a-glance view of all documents you've worked on in the last day, week, month, and year.
Probably the biggest change is that labels have been replaced with folders. All your old tags have been automatically converted to folders, and you can place documents in multiple folders So what's the difference between a label and a folder? Basically the fact that you can drag and drop your files into folders.
The Google Docs & Spreadsheets search feature has also been updated so that it now shows matching results as you type.
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Egan Foote said 9:46AM on 6-27-2007
This looks great! This will make it much easier to Find the Foote!
Egan, out.
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Danilo said 11:56AM on 6-27-2007
I was just wondering when the slides feature is coming along and offline capability. Now that would be awesome.
As far as tags vs folders, I'd still stick with tags, lets see how it goes.
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Mark said 11:56AM on 6-27-2007
New look is great much easier to locate files.
I'll take some Google news every day. I would rather hear about their stuff instead of the constant iPhone news.
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