Google's free, web-based office productivity suite currently includes word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google Docs allows you to create documents from your web browser without the need to install and software or plugins. It also allows you to share and collaborate online.
I'm shocked! This would have been such an easy win for Google, but for some reason they have not integrated the google "office" apps into one holistic experience ... seems like if you built the browser and own the apps, then this would have really provided a "wow" factor and given proof of concept that chrome is truly better at running apps.
Instead, just like in safari and firefox, Chrome still keeps creating new and multiple tabs every time I bounce back and forth between calendar, gmail, and docs. The end result is that at the end of the work day, I have about 10 calendars open and 9 docs home pages (of course, this doesn't happen because I'm vigilant about closing them).
Doesn't chrome know these tabs are already open? Jeez, if you guys want to compete with MSOffice, this problem has to be solved. Nobody wants to continue paying microsoft, but we need a real alternative that works.
From time to time I'm forced into switching for different browser instead of my favorite – Opera. Frequent message saying “You browser is currently not supported” is very annoying. This are most common on Wiki and Docs,but Gmail is Opera crippled as well.
And each time I see it, I, myself as a developer, understand reasons behind it. Yes it is FF that has all set of plug-ins and in fact became a developer tool rather than a browser. But this is still not a reason to provide less support to the best browser available. I'm not here to argue why I've stated Opera the best, yes I know that it has a lot of problems (I've mentioned that I'm a developer :)). But the painful aspect is that I can't notice the movement.
Guys, I really like products of your company, but it is so disappointing when you can't get all from products you like on the browser that you favor so much!
I prefer google docs to MS Word for collaborative development of documents, but I can only see one section of the document I'm working on. This is very frustrating.
I would like to open multiple small sections of the document by expanding sections of an outline. Often I need to refer to multiple related sections in order to ensure they support each other and are not redundant.
The google docs format button already provides 3 levels of heading formats.
Why not provide an outline view similar to MS Word with +/- signs (or other method) for expanding/contracting outline sections at each header.
It would really help me be more productive if I were able to view the entire document at a high level and expand only the sections I wish to work on.
Google Docs is really convenient as I can upload and access my documents from anywhere in the world but I am afraid how safe it is. I don't want anybody to look at my documents.
Google docs / forms - what i'd really love to see is a method of displaying some of the fields that already have information in the cells while being able to enter information in the other fields
I have been working in Google docs the last few days. It's a simple doc: a few headers (+font size, blue), no bullets (use asterisks instead), and a couple of horizontal rules. I am constantly finding that my font size is changing in the lower half of the document, and random carriage returns appear. Any idea on why this is happening? Luckily my doc is more for fun, but I'm still very frustrated ...
Replace all social networking with Google's contacts. Let users put whatever they wish in some profile like we can now with our picture in the google contacts. Assign views to everyone, select people, or groups. Through the user's contact profile you can see docs they have made public or shared with you, calendar's they have made public or shared with you, reader items shared and even mail shared.
No more facebook, plaxo, etc. Just google, sweet and simple :)
I started working on a personal projct using Google Docs. I make and edit documents and spreadsheets. I love the idea that I can access and work on my files from any computer. But I think the implementation sucks. The environment and functions are pretty sloppy and full of bugs. The first problem is that it is very slow. When I drag and drop the file it takes a few seconds for the file to actually move. The word editor sometimes acts up. The sort function is the worst part. When you rename a file and resort sometimes it takes hours for the rename to have an effect on sort. Sometimes the sort doesn't work at all. There is no way making your sorting method permananent or default. There are many more bugs that you guys need to work out before this thing is up to speed.
Best of luck,
Iman
Google Docs is a great idea, but is it very hard to get used to the idea of not seeing the print-style layout when I am doing word processing. I want to see the page. I want to be able to see how the text will flow, where the elements will be placed, where the pages will break, what the margins will be, etc. I'm all for new products and I love web-based services, but the word processing in Google Docs isn't even on my radar screen without this critical feature, and I'm sure many others feel the same.
The title says it all. I love the presentations component of Google Docs, but I hate to so be limited. I put in so much hard work in making the presentation, I don't want to be locked in to one format. I want to move my data around freely between PowerPoint and Google Docs Presenations. Why can't we export presentations as .pptx and .pdf files?
'We're sorry. It seems there is a problem. Please try using Gmail with a supported browser. If you're encountering this error while using a supported browser, we suggest alerting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) that a proxy is failing to accept cookies on HTTP redirects.'
uh? i've been using gapps on firefox since we got the mac a year ago. i can't figure out why the proxy would start failing to accept cookies now.
I usually use Firefox, but it's dog slow, so I'm trying Opera. For 2 hours I edited my document and hit save often (noted that the saving notification appeared each time). Close browser; re-open file; see document from yesterday; grab something sharp...
Granted after digging through your woefully buried help docs I found that Opera isn't supported. Thanks.
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