Google Docs for Android is a nifty app which lets users seamlessly control/edit/save their documents on the cloud. The app has now been updated to bring some added functionality. Google’s major upgrade for this new update is the real time collaboration. What this means is that like the desktop version of Google Docs, users with shared documents can edit the documents simultaneously and the changes will happen at real time. That’s a pretty neat addition to the app.

The overall interface has been tweaked by Google to make it much more user friendly. The update has made Google Docs more fun to use, and this goes to show that the Google Docs team has been doing a lot to bring these new features to the mix. Users can now experience a native text editor on Google Docs as well instead of the standard mobile version which was very sluggish. A native cursor has also been provided which will make navigation very easy. All in all, Google Docs has gone through a cosmetic as well as internal tweaking so as to meet the needs of the user. So Google Docs for Android has been taken to the next level with this new update, what do you guys think? Would you have liked to see anything new in the update?

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Microsoft made two copied of a word file and uploaded them to Word Web App (link) and Google Docs (link) to point out several flaws seen in the way how Google handles Word Documents. These files are publicly visible to everyone. Here’s a quote from one of their pages comparing Google vs Microsoft side by side:

“Google Apps is an ever-changing solution with experimental features that can increase complexity and the need for change management and training.”

“Google Apps isn’t familiar to most information workers and it’s oversimplified. In fact, Google’s own executives admit they don’t believe their tools can replace Microsoft Office. Using Google Docs often leads to frustration with loss of document integrity and loss of formatting”

As ironic as it may sound, when I tried to open Word Web App link, this is what my browser told me:

Personally, I believe word conversion is a very small piece of what Google Docs has to offer. Word is Microsoft’s proprietary format, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that they do it better. I’m yet to try Office 365 myself, and I’m hoping Microsoft did a very good job at it. Competition always benefits the end users!

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This new feature will be called the Pagination, which will give more meaning to your document than before. And of course this feature is user controlled, you may access this particular feature by clicking on View and selecting Document View and finally choosing either Paginated or retain the Compact View which is the straight page layout without any breaks.

Google has also added a native printing feature where the files from Google Docs get printed directly instead of converting them into PDF and printing it through a PDF reader like before. But this feature only works with Chrome for the time being. Though Google hopes that other browsers too would implement this feature and enable native document printing soon.

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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.

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