Not much press on this for some reason. Well Google’s Eric Schmidt has now confirmed that Google Docs & Spreadsheets get a new module called Presentations. While Schmidt states that these applications are not a competitor to Microsoft Office calling them "casual and sharing and a better fit to how people use the Web..." We'd have to disagree this offering looks like direct competiton to Microsoft Office. Here is some more inforamtion about Google Docs and Spreadsheets:
With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can:
* Use Google's online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.
* Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.
* Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.
* View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
Being that it's online, you can:
* Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.
* Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
* Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
* Post your documents to your blog
Here's what you can do with Google documents:
* Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
* Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
* Invite others (by e-mail address) to edit or view your documents and spreadsheets.
* Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
* View your documents' and spreadsheets' revision history and roll back to any version.
* Publish documents and spreadsheets online to the world, as Web pages or post documents to your blog.
* Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
* Email your documents out as attachments.
Here's what you can do with spreadsheets:
* Import and export of .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data (and export functionality for .pdf and html).
* Enjoy intuitive navigation and editing, like any traditional document or spreadsheet.
* Use formatting and formula editing in spreadsheets so you can calculate results and make your data look the way you want it.
* Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet.
* Embed a spreadsheet, or a piece of a spreadsheet, in your blog or website.
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