Today we’re introducing the research pane—a new feature that brings the web’s wealth of information to you as you’re writing documents.The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India...
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
(Cross posted from the Official Google Blog)Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether...
March in Review: Improved charting, expanded language support, and Apps Script updates
Another month and another batch of improvements to Google Docs. We recently debuted a new spell checker that gets smarter and grows with the web, and we’ve also turned on a few features that let you do more with Docs.New charting options We’ve added a bunch of new ways to make richer charts in...
January in Review: Styles, Sparklines, Google+ sharing, and more
One of the best things about working on web apps like Google Docs is that it gives us the flexibility to frequently bring you new features and improvements. Starting this month, we’re going to make some small changes to how we communicate what’s been happening in the world of Docs. Instead of writing...
Google Docs and Sites 2011: A Year in Review
This year, we introduced over 100 new features to Google Docs to make creating, sharing, and collaborating in the cloud an even better experience.In addition to the features you asked for the most, like page numbers and vertical merge, here are our team’s favorite improvements of 2011:A new version...
Try Google presentations. No login required.
We recently launched a new version of Google presentations with many new features to help you create beautiful presentations together. We’ve added the new editor to our Docs demos to make it easier to test drive your presentation building skills.Check out the new animations and transitions, get artsy...
Faces of Docs: Vance Vagell, User Interface Software Engineer
One of my favorite things about being the community manager on the Google Docs team is working alongside people with a myriad of backgrounds, interests, and talents. From learning of one of teammate’s pro cricket player past or another’s literary aspirations, I’m constantly discovering new things about...
A fresh start for Google presentations
A year and a half ago, we released completely new document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. Google Docs has been picking up speed ever since with more than 60 new features and millions of new users. Today we’re rounding out the suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration...
Experience the new look of Docs and Sites
Starting today, we’re rolling out the new design for Google Docs and Sites to everyone.We began rolling out these improvements in early August with the documents list and have since upgraded our entire collaboration suite. You may have noticed that our new look matches other recent Google visual updates,...
This week in Docs: Format painter, Google Fusion Tables, and drag & drop images
This week in Docs, we’re introducing three new tools that put the fun in functional.Format painter in Google documentsFirst, we’ve added a format painter to help you copy formatting within Google documents. The new format painter allows you to copy the style of your text, including font, size, color...
