Google Apps Hacks

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To share a Presentation with a group, rst save the le. Now click Share→Publish as web page→

Publish document. Or, if you want to share the document with only a select few, pick “Share with

others” instead, and invite the other members. If you decide to publish, you will end up with a

document URL like the following:

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dfx37tn_24fxbtdz&fs=true

Going to this address will show the presentation on the left side and a group chat on the right. As

owner of the document, you’ll see a button labeled “Take control of the presentation.” Click it, and

you can move the slides for others once they choose to follow you, as shown in Figure 1-11.

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You launch desktop programs from the desktop. Why not launch

Google programs from the desktop, too?

If you want to open up Google Spreadsheets to create a new le, you can point your browser to

http://www.google.com and choose “Documents” from the “more” menu on top, then click New→

Spreadsheet. A quicker way to do this is to use a bookmark, but Motti Strom, Mobile Software

Engineer at Google UK, suggests an even better way: create a desktop icon to launch Google

documents, spreadsheets, or presentations.