Google Releases Office Suite

    Google’s office suite is called Google Docs & Spreadsheets . As usual, the system is released in beta. Although, in the case of Google, the term "beta" almost corresponds to the term "official release".

    Actually, the Google Docs & Spreadsheets bundle is nothing new. These are the same programs that were known before, namely the Writely text editor (an analogue of MS Word) and Spreadsheets spreadsheets (an analogue of MS Excel). Now they have come out as part of a single set of programs (similar to MS Office).

    We are not talking about any close integration of a text editor and spreadsheets. Combining programs in a single package has more marketing value. This is another psychological blow to Microsoft. I must say that the online office has a number of advantages over its "offline" competitor: free of charge, the ability to work together (chat is built directly into the program interface), access from any computer, guaranteed document security, continuous automatic saving, etc.

    The online office is available to anyone who has a Google account. After authorization, the user gets to a page with his office documents (a kind of "Desktop"). At first it is completely empty, but there are two magic buttons on the page: “Move My Documents” for quickly transferring documents from old Writely accounts and “Upload” for uploading documents to a website from a personal computer. Naturally, there are buttons for creating new documents: both text and spreadsheets. Thus, the "desktop" is quickly filled with content.

    The functionality of a text editor and spreadsheets in the online version is still far from the usual programs, but it is constantly expanding. For example, the maximum number of cells in one spreadsheet has already been increased to 50 thousand, and the maximum number of rows - up to 10 thousand.

    An online office is one of several personal services on Google, the number of which is constantly increasing. Here is the mail service , organizer , photo album , news reader and much more . Here is collected almost everything that is required in the daily work of an ordinary user.

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