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What can Google Docs do?
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I volunteered to give a short presentation on Google Docs, thinking there'd be something of use to the publishing company I work for. I work specifically on the editorial side. So things like writing, editing, etc.
Anyway, off the top of my head I thought there might be some use to Google Docs, since we work with a lot of people outside our office. But doing some quick research on Google Docs, it doesn't actually seem like there's much to it. You can share pseudo-Word documents and more than one person can edit them.
What else? Not just documents, either. Anything you can tell me about the spreadsheet aspect of it, or just anything that I can show a bunch of people that's going to make them say, "Hey that's kind of cool and useful."
(It doesn't matter to me personally if there's no reason for us to use Google Docs. I didn't volunteer the presentation by saying "Let me show you how awesome Google Docs is!" I said, "Let me do a presentation on this so we can all learn together whether there's anything of use to us." But still, I'd like to be able to show them something.)
Anyway, off the top of my head I thought there might be some use to Google Docs, since we work with a lot of people outside our office. But doing some quick research on Google Docs, it doesn't actually seem like there's much to it. You can share pseudo-Word documents and more than one person can edit them.
What else? Not just documents, either. Anything you can tell me about the spreadsheet aspect of it, or just anything that I can show a bunch of people that's going to make them say, "Hey that's kind of cool and useful."
(It doesn't matter to me personally if there's no reason for us to use Google Docs. I didn't volunteer the presentation by saying "Let me show you how awesome Google Docs is!" I said, "Let me do a presentation on this so we can all learn together whether there's anything of use to us." But still, I'd like to be able to show them something.)
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The overall benefit is that more people have the internet than the entire MS Office applications. It's a given that if you have internet access, you can get to Google.
Some people might think this a disadvantage since all data is stored by Google, and if your Internet access/Google goes down, then you've lost your data. A fair call, I guess.
It also stores revision histories, so you can see what changed per revision. Useful for when you've mucked a formula up so badly in the spreadsheet that you need to go back to a previous version to fix it.
wtf.