Google Apps Hacks

44 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

Google Docs supports a number of document formats, and the list of supported formats changes

from time to time. Here’s the list that was current as of the time of this writing:

File types you can import into

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HTML, text, Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, OpenOfce document, StarOfce

File types you can export from :

HTML, text, Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, OpenOfce document, PDF

File types you can import into

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Comma-Separated Values les, Microsoft Excel, OpenOfce spreadsheet

File types you can export from

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HTML, text, Comma-Separated Values les, Microsoft Excel, OpenOfce spreadsheet

File types you can export from :

HTML

File types you can import into :

Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT and PPS)

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Use some JavaScript trickery to generate tables of contents

for your Google Documents and perform other complex text

manipulations.

When you create a word processing document in Google Docs, you can turn any line into a headline

by clicking the Style button to select Header 1 (for the main headline), Header 2 (for subsequent

headlines) and so on. You can then publish the document by using Share→“Publish as web page”.

But what if you’ve created a document so long that it needs a table of contents ...