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Posts tagged ‘Google Docs’

Feb 24

Sync Online Media To Your Desktop With Social Folders

Cloud services, such as Facebook, Flickr and Google Docs, are great for their convenience and rapid development cycles, but many of us are uncomfortable with leaving the master copies of our data on someone else’s computers.

If you’d like an easy way to keep local copies of your online pictures and documents, you should try Social Folders. Read more

Feb 1

Share Your Documents And Presentations With QR Codes

Whether you are a student or a professional, many of us have to distribute either documents or presentations to colleagues and coworkers. While more traditional modes of sharing information, such as uploading a file to a service like Google Docs or sending out a hyperlink, are still perfectly viable, there is another option you may want to consider. Read more

Dec 16

Use Google Docs To Access RAR And ZIP File Contents

RAR and ZIP files are convenient ways to transfer multiple files to and from friends/family/coworkers, but they can also serve as a way to disguise malware. In order for a security program to determine whether one of these file types contains a harmful payload, it must often first uncompress it and download the contained files to your computer.

Luckily, Google Docs now has the ability to support these file types, and with the addition of a useful Chrome extension, you can access the content of these files right within your browser, without the need to download anything to your PC. Read more

Nov 2

Experience Mail Merge Nirvana With Gmail And Google Docs

Mail merge, the term either makes you cringe or sends rippling waves of pleasure throughout your body. The fact is that a mail merge program can facilitate the sending of personalized email messages to multiple contacts in a single stroke.

How can this benefit you? Well, if you’re organizing a party, you can send personalized invitations to your guests, or, if you run a small business that is getting ready to launch a new product, you can easily invite potential customers to the launch of your ingenious invention.

Today, we’re going to learn how you can use a handy tool from Digital Inspiration to create a mail merge by harnessing two of the Web’s most useful, online apps. Read more

Jun 17

Achieve Powerful, Collaborative School Note Taking With Google Docs

In an age when many students have classes with 100+ students, collaborative study has become a viable way to combat the lack of personal interaction between student and teacher, and helps many learners solidify the knowledge they are exposed to in the classroom. Often, this process involves the pooling of disparate resources to create comprehensive study guides.

With innovative, social tools like Google Docs available, why not generate and compare notes collectively, at the same time? Read more

Jun 13

How To Unlock A Protected Excel File

Whether you need to correct a colleague’s mistake, or you forgot the password you secured a file with, getting locked out from mission critical data can be a frustrating experience.

If you’re using Microsoft Office and are looking for ways to regain access to a protected Excel file, you might want to give these options a shot. Read more

Jun 6

Making Microsoft Office And Google Docs Work Together

No matter how attractive shifting our computing to the cloud becomes, we are still tied to certain client-side applications, at least for the time being. While we are experiencing this transition period, it is beneficial to try and find ways to take advantage of the benefits of both cloud-based and local computing platforms.

Microsoft Office and Google Docs demonstrate this phenomenon well. Office is powerful and comprehensive, but was developed with local computing on the Windows OS in mind, and is behind on collaborative functionality. Google Docs was designed from the ground-up to be light, dynamic, collaborative and platform independent.

Instead of making an either/or choice, wouldn’t it be nice if you could somehow utilize both of these office productivity juggernauts? Read more

Apr 29

Upload And Stream Your Videos With Google Docs

Google Docs is a free, web-based office applications suite that enables you to create all of the same types of files (e.g., spreadsheets, presentations) that a traditional product, such as Microsoft Office or OpenOffice, does. Since it is a cloud-based product, Google is able to frequently update it and is continually adding new features and streamlining its operation.

Now, Google Docs has one more innovative feature. Read more