Research pane updates: quick access to your stuff in Docs, Slides & Drawings

Research pane updates: quick access to your stuff in Docs, Slides & Drawings
A few months ago, the research pane was added to Docs to make it easier for you to search for and add web results, images, quotations, maps, and articles to your document. Starting today, the research pane is also available in Slides and Drawings, and searches now include your stuff in addition to...

One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides

One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Google Drive is a place where you can create, share, collaborate and keep all your stuff. Of course, there are times you want to start a new document right away–say, to take notes in class or prepare a last-minute presentation for your boss.To make it even easier for you to create stuff quickly, Documents,...

Google Drive is the new home for all your Google Docs and more. Get started.

Google Drive is the new home for all your Google Docs and more. Get started.
Several months ago, we launched Google Drive: one place to create, collaborate, share and keep all your stuff. If you’ve used Docs in the past, Google Drive is the new home for all your files and folders including your Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.This means all your files that...

Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android

Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Every day, more and more people are choosing to live online and get things done in the cloud. Helping to make this experience as seamless as possible, Google Drive is one place where you can create, share and keep all your stuff. Drive is available...

450+ new ways to make your Google presentations pop

450+ new ways to make your Google presentations pop
Good design is an important part of getting your point across in a presentation. Over time we’ve added a bunch of features to help you bring a little something extra to your decks, like slide transitions and animations, thousands of free stock photos, and a growing collection of templates.Today, creating...

Offline updates and a quick look back at June

Offline updates and a quick look back at June
Summer brings fun in the sun (in our hemisphere, at least) and a bunch of updates to Google Drive. A few weeks ago at Google I/O, we announced a couple of highly requested features: the ability to edit Google documents offline and a Drive app for iOS.When you enable Docs offline in Google Drive, you...

Google Docs: May in Review

Google Docs: May in Review
April showers bring May flowers, along with a bunch of new features and updates to Google Docs. In May we launched the research pane which makes it easy to look things up and insert quotes, images, and maps into documents without ever having to open a new browser tab. And we also made some other improvements...

Spell checking powered by the web

Spell checking powered by the web
One of my early projects at Google was to improve the suggestions that are made when a query is misspelled in Google Search. The neat thing about that system is that it’s adaptive: our suggestions get smarter and smarter based on the words Googlebot sees as it explores the web.But search isn’t the...

Improved discussions, search scanned text in PDFs, and 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...

Great presentations start with great discussions

Great presentations start with great discussions
Back in October, we released a preview of a brand new version of Google presentations, designed to make it easier to share ideas with others. We've been busy polishing the app based on your feedback and today we're excited to enable the new editor for all new presentations.We’re also introducing a number...

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