Google Apps Hacks

16 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

The API can do much more than this, though. You can choose from many different chart types, or

customize colors, line styles, and lls, to name just a few of the available options. For a full list of

features, take a look at Google’s documentation available at http://code.google.com/apis/chart/.

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If you nd yourself sharing many documents with the same group

of people, adding all their names each time can be tiresome.

The Share tab of Google Docs has a nice feature that’s easy to overlook: custom invitation groups.

If you need to invite the same people over and over, this one is for you. The solution presented here

was originally laid out by Ionut Alexandru Chitu, a Google expert and blogger (http://googlesystem.

blogspot.com) from Romania, who wanted an alternative to an otherwise tedious process.

To give this a try, create a new document by going to http://docs.google.com and choosing New→

Document (or Spreadsheet or Presentation) from the menu. Enter some text and save your

document. Now switch to Share→“Share with others”. Instead of typing the names of the people

you want to invite, click the “Choose from contacts” link. Select All Contacts from the dropdown

menu (it defaults to Most Contacted) in the new window that appears, and select all the people you

want to share the document with, as shown in Figure 1-19.

Although you ...