For those of you who tend to save documents as PDF's frequently, you may be interested to know that it looks as though Google is planning to add a PDF service to their collection of online office applications. Currently they offer Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, so a PDF service would fit in nicely.
So far Google has yet to make any official announcement or confirm the suspicions, however there are a couple of clues that
Zoho has just added a feature to Zoho Writer that while may not seem like anything big, will be really helpful to a select group of people. What they've done is added the option for users to import documents from Google Docs to Zoho Writer. The group of people who this will be really helpful to is those who started using Google Documents at one point or another but now use Zoho. Additionally, for
Google Docs just added what I consider to be a feature that is needed to help bridge the gap between desktop and online word processing. They added a page view (as expected) that is typical of any desktop word processor, and it's almost like getting a live print preview while you work. To access the new setting go to the View menu, and
Google actually made an interesting move yesterday in terms of how people can collaborate on the spreadsheets they create. If you take a look at the Share tab in one of your Google Spreadsheets you'll notice a new option towards the bottom that's new. With it you can share a spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone and everyone which, as Google OS points
Back in September, we wrote about "The Ultimate Steal" from Microsoft because they were offering students the option to purchase Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59 bucks. Considering it retails for $680, this deal is a 91% discount. At the time they said the offer would end on April 30th, but as it turns out, they extended the offer a few days and now
Over the last several months we've seen a lot of growth in the web-based office applications arena. Between Zoho and Google Docs, all kinds of features have been added which make using the applications even easier and more second nature. The team over at Google Docs has just gotten done adding yet more features to their suite of online apps, including offline capability for more of their applications.
Back on April 1st, we wrote
While Google's Presentations application has been nice, it has been missing one important feature. That feature is the option to save presentations in the PowerPoint format (PPT). Today that changes because Google now supports PPT files. This means that users will be able to open the presentations that they create with Google, in Microsoft's PowerPoint. If there was any one