Awesome Add-ons for Google Docs & Sheets

Add-ons

Add-Ons are tools created by developer partners that 'add' more features to documents and spreadsheets. They include Business tools & Productivity tools, for example;-

• Get approvals from Docs and Sheets 
• Print address labels and name tags 
• Create a bibliography without leaving Docs 
• Send customized emails 

See the full article on the Google Enterprise blog

New version of the Google Docs Forms Editor

Forms allow you to create questionnaires or contact data from the web and then view the responses in a spreadsheet. A new version of the forms editor launched Jan 30th.

Availability of this update depends on whether you are on Rapid Release (over the next few days) or Scheduled Release (in the coming weeks). You can create forms directly from Google Spreadsheet or Drive, or install the Chrome Web App  for easy access from your browser.

Tips & Tricks...

Editing Documents Offline !!

It will be possible to edit & comment on Documents offline from July 24th with a number of caveats;-

1. you must be running the latest version of Chrome or ChromeOS and install the Google Drive Chrome app to edit offline.
2. Offline editing is only available for Google documents at this time. It is not yet available for Google spreadsheets or presentations.

There is a sequence of steps to be followed;-

1. Allow offline access for your computer

see http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1628469

2. Sync items to view offline
see

http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1628512

Tip: use offline editing just for documents that you own since any modifications made by the Document Owner have precedence !!

For more information see http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107972

Google Docs/Presentations features

Google Docs/Presentations adds more features... always incremental improvement :-)