Google Office
Google’s office suite consists of several applications and a document manager, Google Drive. The three most popular applications are Docs, text editor; Sheets, spreadsheet; and Show, presentations. There are numerous other applications that can be added, however. The suite is available to anyone with a Gmail address, and there are also government agencies, businesses, and educational organizations that have accounts with their own email domains.
Users can store up to 15 GB of documents online for free, but more storage and professional versions of the suite are also available. Go to drive.google.com to access it.
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Applications
Docs, Sheets, and Slides can open applications in Microsoft Office formats, OpenDocument Formats, and other formats, but each have their own native formats for creating documents.
Google Drive
The central manager has various settings that can be applied to one or more documents or folders at a time. This section gives an overview of it and has links to more information.
History
Google acquired Upstartle in 2006, a company that was behind creating a word processor that runs in a Web browser, called Writely. This section goes into more details about the history.
Related Links
This has links to pages and articles about Google Drive, each of the three applications, and links to Web pages and articles about other applications.
Applications
The word processor has eight menus and a taskbar. New documents are created in the GDOC format. Word documents (DOCX) can be opened directly in Docs without being converted into this file format. However, for documents in other formats, a copy of the document will be made in the GDOC format. These include documents in OpenDocument Text (ODT) and Rich Text formats (RTF).
Docs
Docs is the number 1 competitor to Microsoft Word. While it is not as feature rich, it has most of the features and capabilities as the most popular text editor. Access to it is through most Web browsers and operating systems, though it has a few more features when Google Chrome or Chromium is used to access it.
OS-College has videos and Web pages about its features, capabilities, and the formats it can edit and export. Click the links below this paragraph to go to pages about Docs.
Sheets
The spreadsheet application has nine menus, a taskbar, and a formula bar. It has many of the capabilities as Microsoft Excel. Most of the formulas Excel users can perform will also work in a Sheets spreadsheet.
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A new spreadsheet will be created in a proprietary format, GSHEET. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets also can be opened directly in Sheets. Various charts and graphs can be created with Sheets, and they can be imported into Google Slides for presentations.
Sheets can export spreadsheets into a variety of formats, including XLSX, PDF, and image formats. Click the links below this paragraph to go to pages about Sheets.
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Slides
The presentation is the third application in Google’s office suite. Like Docs and Sheets, new documents are created in a proprietary format, GSLIDES. The nine menus and taskbar are available to these documents and PowerPoint formatted presentations (PPTX) that have been uploaded to Google Drive.
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Users can easily give live presentations to groups through their presentations when additional apps are attached through Google Drive.
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Click the links below this paragraph to go to pages about Slides.
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Other Apps
The Other subsection has Web pages and videos about other applications, such as Forms and Drawings. Some features and functions are the same across all or several of the applications, such as opening a document. Videos and Web pages will cover these functions and features.
Forms
Drawings
My Maps
Sites
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Google Drive
The central manager has various settings that can be applied to one or more documents or folders at a time. These settings and features are available through a right-click menu or through a menu at the top of the document list that appears when documents and folders are selected. There are other settings in Google Drive.
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Click the links below this paragraph to go to pages about Drive.
Related Links
Google Drive
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Docs
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Sheets
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Slides
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