Google Docs Update: Now You Can Sort By Relevance, Export All And More

Google Docs is a collection of online productivity application which allows one to create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.  With Google Docs you can share your documents. Multiple users can be granted access to these documents at the same time and therefore it helps teams collaborate online.

Google Docs may not be as versatile as the leading desktop word processing applications, but Google has often updated the suite with new capabilities and features. Google Docs may not have all the bells and whistles as present in the other softwares, but it has always met a basic users needs.

Google will soon churn out the following updates to Google Docs.

Now, your search results will display the items most relevant to your search at the top of the list. We also added a new menu on the right side of the toolbar, which lets you decide whether you’d like to sort your Docs list by "Relevance," "Starred" or "Last Modified". This improvement to search within Docs also includes automatic stemming and synonyms. So if you search for "check account", we’ll also include results for a few variations of those words, including "checking account" (which is what you probably meant to type). Or if you search for "mac book", we’ll also include results for "macbook".

Export all your files
There’s also more good news from the Data Liberation Front. A few weeks ago we launched the new "Export…" functionality. Today, we added an "Export all" option, which lets you export all your docs (up to 2GB at a time) with one click. This is the equivalent of almost 100,000 Google Docs.

You can also export a single file and email it to anyone you’d like in a single step. Once you select an item, click "Share" and select "Email as attachment…". Then pick which format (PDF, MS Office, etc.) you want to use to send the item, compose your email, and hit send.

Sunsetting Email-In Your Documents and Files

Lastly, a change that we aren’t excited about. We’re removing the existing "email-in" feature. As you may know, it’s been a bit buggy recently and only supports a small subset of document types compared to the Docs list. In order to address this, we’ll be taking down the feature and working on a bringing it back in the future with more functionality and better integration.

In the meantime, you can use the multi-file upload in your Docs list or the GData API to programmatically upload docs. You can also take attachments from GMail and open them in Google Docs.

[Via: Google]