Transcript Google Docs - University of Virginia's College at Wise

By : Bridget Kargbo
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 Google has integrated its online spreadsheet and word
processor into a single free service that's now available to
anyone with a Google account.
 Both the Docs and Spreadsheets products offer the ability to
collaborate on a document or spreadsheet with others.
 Cost
 Google Docs is free! If you use Google Apps, Google Docs
is included as part of the suite of products.
 To use Google Gears, you'll need one of the following:
 Microsoft Windows XP or Vista with Firefox 3+ or Internet
Explorer 7+
 Apple Mac OS X (10.4+) with Firefox 3+
 uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data
and applications.
 allows consumers and businesses to use applications without
installation and access their personal files at any computer
with internet access.
 allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing
storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
 A cloud can be private or public.
 A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet.
(Currently, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud
provider.)
 A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center
that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people.
 Three Services that involves delivering hosted services over
the Internet
 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
 provides virtual server instances with unique IP
addresses and blocks of storage on demand.
 Can start, stop, access and configure virtual servers
and storage.
 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
 a set of software and product development tools
hosted on the provider's infrastructure.
 Developers create applications on the provider's
platform over the Internet.
 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
 the software product and interacts with the user
through a front-end portal.
 There are google docs for students, teachers and
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business
Collaborate with others who don't own Word
Store your documents online and access them from
another computer
Export documents as PDFs
No need to install software on your computer
Publish documents online to the world, as webpages
or post documents to your blog.
Download documents to your desktop as Word,
OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
 Upload and convert Word documents, OpenOffice,
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RTF, HTML, text (.txt), Open Office (.odt), and
StarOffice Writer (.sxw) files (or create documents from
scratch).
Easily format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
Invite others by email to edit or view your documents.
Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
View your documents' revision history and roll back to
any version.
Email your documents out as attachments.
 Use formatting and formula editing so you can
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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 individual sheets of your
spreadsheet, in your blog or website.
Import and convert .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted
data.
Export .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data and PDF
and HTML files.
 Each spreadsheet you upload and convert can be
up to 256 columns, or up to 200,000 cells, or up to 100
sheets. There's no limit on number of rows.
 You have a limit of 1000 spreadsheets. The
spreadsheets that are shared with you do not count
against 1000 limit.
 The limit on spreadsheets open at one time is 11.
 You can import and convert spreadsheets up to
approximately 1MB in xls, xlsx, csv, ods, txt, tsv, or tsb
format.
 Share and edit presentations with your friends and
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coworkers.
Insert images and videos, and format your slides to fit
your preferences.
Allow real-time viewing of presentations, online, from
separate remote locations.
Publish and embed your presentation in a website,
allowing access to a wide audience.
Easily edit your presentations.
 Presentations in both .ppt and .pps file formats from
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your local computer can be up to 10MB in size or 200
slides.
By entering the URL of a file on the Web, you can
upload presentations up to 2MB.
You have a combined limit of 5000 documents and
presentations and 5000 images.
Import and convert existing presentations in .ppt and
.pps file types.
Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a TXT
file.
Compare
 Office also have Word,
Excel and PowerPoint.
Contrast
 Microsoft office is only
available through retailers
and requires installation
 Google Docs also provides
some quick publishing
tools that let you publish a
document with a unique
address (URL) on
google.com that you can
share with others.