Google Apps Hacks

GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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On paper, you can use any type of symbol, without having to worry about installing fonts. You can

easily include your drawings without increasing the le size. You can get together with a small group

to scribble along on the same paper in real time. You can underline, strikethrough, and use arrows

and quick charts without knowing a single shortcut or location of a menu entry. Also, paper won’t

ask you to register before using it.

What does Google documents (see Chapter 1 for an overview and introduction) have that paper

doesn’t, anyway? Besides not requiring trees to be felled in production, that is. Here’s an overview:

With Google documents, you can view the editing history of a le. This means that if you want to,

you can compare the current state of the document with one from two months ago, and replace

the new version with the old version if necessary.

With Google documents, you can collaborate in real time with a group of people who are not in the

same room, or even in the same country.

You can check the spelling of the document, get a count of all the words in the document, or

search and replace within ...