Starting today, things are about to get cleaner—and more colorful—in Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Apps Script. First, you’ll notice each editor’s product icon displayed in the header, which doubles as a quick link back to all your files in Drive. Next, you’ll see that the header is more...
Improved discussions, search scanned text in PDFs, and more
Fresh on the heels of adding discussions to Google presentations and the ability to edit within the Google Docs Android app, we’ve been hard at work on a few other new features to enhance your Google Docs experience. All your comments--in one tidy placeWe just added the discussions feature to Google...
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...
This week in Docs: Copying drawings and better right-to-left table support
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 that you can work with drawings within documents, spreadsheets,...
Revisions, and presence, and painters, oh my. Updates to Drawings
Today we’re releasing a bunch of new features in Google Drawings, designed to make editing easier and more collaborative.Presence + Revision historyGoogle Docs has always been designed to make it easy to work on documents together. We’re making that easier in drawings by introducing two new features....
Our favorite Docs things - 2010 Year in Review
We’ve been keeping busy this year with over 85 new enhancements to Google Docs and Google Sites, making it possible for you to work, communicate and collaborate entirely in the cloud. We wanted to take a moment to share a few of the most exciting enhancements from 2010 that are making it easier for...
Demo Slam! Epic Docs Animation
If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably seen your fair share of Google Docs videos featured on this blog. Well, we have one more to show you this year, created entirely with Google Docs, demonstrating the power of nothing but the web -- and it just might be our favorite yet.Google introduced Demo...
Tips & Tricks: Building Organizational Charts in Google drawings
With the new addition of connectors in Google drawings, it’s easier than ever to build anything from a family tree to a flowchart in just a few minutes.In honor of the holidays, we thought we’d create a bracket-style showdown between our favorite types of pie.Select Shape from the Insert menu, and you’ll...
Your feedback makes a difference: Product Ideas
Many of you have visited our Product Ideas page to let us know what features you’d like to see in Google Docs or what you think we’re missing. Your participation was astounding: we received over 165,000 votes on over 5,000 ideas from thousands of people around the world over the course of a year. Here...
Import WMF files into Google drawings
Yesterday we added a new import type for Google drawings: Windows Metafile (WMF) . It’s an image format that’s designed to be scalable. Unlike other image formats (PNG, JPEG, etc.) WMF files use vectors to represent pictures so that no matter how much you stretch an image, it will never look pixelated.To...
