Google Apps Hacks

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Instead of clicking Done right away in this dialog, click the “Save as Group” button. A new prompt

asks you to name this group, so provide a name like Colleagues or Family. Now when you close the

dialog via the Done button, the names you selected will be entered into the invitation box for you.

But the next time you want to share a document, you can just click the “Choose from contacts” link,

select your custom group from the drop-down menu at the top of the window (the same menu that

defaults to Most Contacted), and press the “Add All” button to invite all of them at once.

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Wouldn’t it be neat to automatically open a local Ofce le with

Google Spreadsheets? Actually, you can!

By default, those les you open in the Google Docs le listing at http://docs.google.com will open

in Google’s editor. Local les on your hard disk, however, are likely to be associated with an ofine

program like OpenOfce.org or Microsoft Ofce. But there’s a way to associate these les with

Google’s tools. All you need is the Google Toolbar for your browser.

For this hack, you need Firefox 1.5+. If you don’t have the Firefox browser yet, you can get it for free

at http://refox.com. Then point your browser to http://toolbar.google.com and click the “Download

Google Toolbar” button to get the Google toolbar, as pictured in Figure 1-20.

During installation, ...