Google Apps Hacks

6 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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One common use of collaboration is to ask for feedback on a document you’re editing. Your friend,

colleague, editor, or boss can add comments to your document, which you can work with in turn. All

your collaborator needs for this is a Google Account, as discussed in the beginning of this chapter.

(Without a Google Account, others can only view your documents—they cannot modify them.)

Let’s start by creating a Google Docs document at http://docs.google.com. Name it “Thai Chicken

Recipe.” To get the initial recipe, you can go to Google Base at http://base.google.com and click the

Recipes link; next, select the cuisine, main ingredient, and more from the drop-down menus, as

pictured in Figure 1-6, and choose your preferred dish. You can highlight, copy, then paste the full page

content directly into your empty Docs document as shown in Figure 1-7.

If you like to eat but you’re no master cook, you can now invite your master cook friend to the

document to proofread it. (None of your friends can cook Thai? Visit Google’s social network at

http://orkut.com and join the 6,500+ member-strong “Thai food lovers” community.) To invite

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your friend, click Share→“Share with others” on top ...