Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Google Docs Offer Collaboration Tools
Technology
Microsoft Office is expensive, and as a result, there are a lot of people trying to get by on half-baked applications like WordPad and Microsoft Works. Neither of these are good choices, especially if you need documents that play nicely and share with others.
One alternative is the online word processor / spreadsheet / presentation manager called Google Docs.
The editing tools in all of the applications are very basic, but where the program shines is in its sharing tools. The files are stored online at Google, so you can access them anywhere you have internet access. You can export your documents as Word files, RTF, OpenOffice and even pdf files (very useful if you don’t have a full version of Adobe Acrobat). You also can publish the document to the internet—Google will give you a unique url with which to find it—to your blog, or to another web page. Finally, Google Docs allows you to designate other people as collaborators, and they can work on editing and changing the document as well. Google Docs also keeps tracks of versions so you can go back to a previous version.
In all, I think that Google Docs has a great deal of potential use, both for business and hobbies. For wargamers in particular, it coudl make the creation of “group” rules sets more feasible.
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