In April, we introduced the Google Docs app for Android, which allows you to access and create new docs on the go, directly from an app on your Android phone. Since then, we’ve continued to work on ways to improve your mobile experience, and I’m ex…
Shep McAllister is a rising senior at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and editor of the popular student blog HackCollege. For the past several years, he has done his college coursework exclusively on Google Docs, and today he shares his five fav…
Hello from the Google Docs team! It’s been a hot summer in many parts of the United States, so our New York based team escaped to Governor’s Island for a refreshing afternoon of team bonding.
Wishing all of you a happy (and collaborative!) month of A…
Today we’re introducing page-level permissions, a new feature that will allow you to control who can view and edit your Google Site on a page by page basis.
Using page-level permissions, you can make some pages private for certain users while keepin…
From the simple SUM function to GoogleLookup, Google spreadsheets continues to add features that help you power through data. But sometimes it can be a challenge to find the one you need to use or figure out the right way to use it. We’ve made the fo…
We continue to add new features like pagination and discussions to the new document editor, and we want to make sure you always have access to all of the latest functionality — whether you’re creating a new doc from scratch or using a template from …
As part of our effort to provide an improved and consistent web experience across Google products, we’d like to invite you to try out a new look for the documents list that’s rolling out to users over the next few days. If it’s available to you, you’…
Today, we’re releasing a few new types of charts, plus a feature that allows you to copy your charts from spreadsheets into documents and drawings. Sound good? Bet your bar chart it does. Let’s show you how it works.Start by creating a chart. Then,…
This week in Docs, we have a couple of new features that we hope make your life easier (and more visual). Read on. Copying and pasting drawings across docs Starting today, we’re adding support for the web clipboard to the embedded drawing editor so t…
This week, we’re introducing a number of enhancements to Google Docs and Sites: a spreadsheets shortcuts menu, support for PPTX conversion, a new RSS gadget, and improved mobile rendering for Sites.Spreadsheets shortcutsAlthough shortcuts have long b…
Downloading files that you only need to preview can create unnecessary clutter on your computer. While you can already use the Google Docs Viewer to view over 15 different file types without downloading them, today we’ve added support for archive fil…
As Google Docs has developed over the last five years, the Google Docs Help Center has also grown to help you learn how to use hundreds of Google Docs features. With new features and articles being added regularly, however, the help center became hard …
Recently we opened our Product Ideas page to gather your feedback about what you’d like to see next in Google Docs. Over a two-week period, nearly 4,000 of you participated, submitting close to 2,000 ideas and casting over 50,000 votes.Our request fo…
Cross-posted on the Official Google BlogYesterday, our top 15 Google Science Fair finalists descended on Google’s headquarters and wowed our luminary judges—as well as more than 1,000 local attendees plus Googlers who stopped by to check out the ac…
Cross posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Students BlogThe young scientists of the world have proven themselves truly impressive people—inventing technologies to improve the accuracy of prosthetic devices, developing video-audio memory …