August 8th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It’s very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India, glued to our black-and-white TV for…
August 8th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
What happens when you give hundreds of student teams across the world an AdWords online advertising budget of US$250 and three weeks to help a local business improve their marketing campaign? A great lesson for advertisers of all kinds. In an effort to…
August 8th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsFor two weeks in July, we ran Power Searching with Google, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) similar to those pioneered by Stanford and MIT. We blended this format with our socia…
August 8th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
What happens when you give hundreds of student teams across the world an AdWords online advertising budget of US$250 and three weeks to help a local business improve their marketing campaign? You get the annual Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) …
August 8th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
No new features to announce.The following features are intended for release to these domains on August 14th:Calendar: Users have had the ability to change the colors of calendars from a default color palette. Users can now choose a custom color if the …
August 8th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Named & Protected Ranges: Users now have the ability to name a range in a spreadsheet. You can then protect such a named range instead of protecting the whole sheet. You can also use the name of the range in formulas.Border colors: Users can now pi…
August 8th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Digital maps reflect our real world. As the places around us evolve and change, so should our maps. With Google Map Maker – a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world – you can help ensure the accuracy of …
August 8th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We recently let you know about upcoming improvements to the Payments page in your account, designed to provide you with a better experience and address your feedback. These changes are part of an upgrade to our payment system, and over the coming month…
August 8th, 2012 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
One of the great things about the web is that you can hop from page to page watching videos, playing games, or checking email without installing additional software that may pose a security risk to your computer. On the Chrome team, we’ve made it our…
August 7th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
A devastating Southwest Monsoon hit the Island of Luzon, Philippines, yesterday, triggering major flooding. The Crisis Response team has collected resources on to a new page to help in the aftermath of the floods, with information in both Filipino…
August 7th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
In this year’s edition of Diary of a Summer Intern, we’ve given you a glimpse at what life is like as a Google intern. We’ve been following five interns this summer from our offices around the world as they the take on the challenges and adve…
August 7th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
We’re dedicated to helping merchants succeed with Google Shopping and a huge part of this success involves making it easy for businesses to optimize their accounts, especially before the holiday season. For example, we recently released an update to …
August 7th, 2012 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
If you sometimes try to orbit the spreadsheet you’re working on, you’re one of us. If the phrase “Follow Me that profile along this edge” makes sense to you, you’re one of us. If building a model is easily the best part of your workday, you’re one of u…
August 7th, 2012 | by Ariel | published in Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Posted by Joe Kaptur, Software Engineer(Cross-posted from Google Docs Blog) Editing with others in real-time makes it easy to get stuff done in Google spreadsheets in only a matter of minutes. But with so many people working in the same space, it’s …
August 7th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Docs
Editing with others in real-time makes it easy to get stuff done in Google spreadsheets in only a matter of minutes. But with so many people working in the same space, it’s possible to modify a section that a collaborator didn’t intend to be touched. That’s why, today, we’re updating the Named Ranges feature in spreadsheets to let you also protect them.
To get started with Protected Ranges in a shared spreadsheet, highlight the cells you’d like to protect, right-click, and choose Name and protect range from the menu.
Click through the presentation below to see the feature in action.
Even more spreadsheet features added this month
Along with the arrival of protected ranges, you can now add colors and patterns when you apply cell borders in Google spreadsheets. We also updated find and replace to make it possible to search using patterns (also called regular expressions). For example, “^[A-Z]+” will find all the cells that start with uppercase letters.
As always, Google spreadsheets is getting better every day, so stay tuned for even more features and updates in the coming weeks.
Posted by: Joe Kaptur, Software Engineer