Google Docs redesigns toolbar, adds colored labels

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Google Docs redesigns toolbar, adds colored labels

by Brad Linder Mar 26th 2008

Google has rolled out two new features for Google Docs, the company's online word processing application. The first is a new improved menu toolbar. Well, improved might be a subject term. To be perfectly honest, it doesn't appear to add a whole lot of new features. But it looks far more like the menu toolbar you'd expect to find in a desktop application, complete with File, Edit, Insert, Format, Tools, and Table options.

Google has also added the ability to select colors for your labels/folders. This is a feature that Google added to Gmail a few months ago. And we have to say, it's one of those features you didn't necessarily know you needed until you have it and then it's hard to imagine life without it.

If you use Google Docs regularly, these two features, particularly the colored labels could make life a lot easier. But as much as we love us some free Google office applications, we have to say, Zoho Writer still blows Google Docs away in a feature by feature comparison.

[via Google Operating System and... Google Operating System]

Tags: colored-labels, folders, google-docs, labels, menus

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