Office Tweaks

May 21st, 2008

Quick and Easy Forms With Google Docs

Here’s a Youtube video showing you around Google Docs; on how to create forms, questionnaires, surveys, etc.

[ via Google Docs Blog ]
Tags: Google Docs, Web Forms

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May 9th, 2008

Xero with Google Docs

The world’s easiest accounting system, Xero, now allows you to report spreadsheet reports to Google Docs. With this additional option, aside from having it exported to PDF and Excel, this allows you to work you files anywhere, anytime. That’s the beauty of SaaS, (see screenshot for preview).

Xero interacts directly with Google Docs via APIs […]

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May 6th, 2008

What do you need to build your Virtual Office?

Howdy! Just want to share how I manage my virtual office doing my I.T. Consultant and Web Developer jobs. I am! I am working from home most of the time and setting up a virtual office is a must.
Choosing the right tools for your virtual office is really a crucial tasks. I must admit it […]

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May 1st, 2008

Styling your Google Docs with CSS

If you are an advance web designing, you probably know what it is meant by “Styling your Google Docs with CSS“. And if not, you can start reading about CSS and have yourself a tutor for you to appreciate how wonderful it is to work with CSS.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets makes formatting and […]

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April 30th, 2008

Google Docs, What’s New This Month?

What’s new with Google Docs this month of April? It was for sure a busy month for Google Docs Team as they released many updates and functionalities.

Better yet list them down here to showcase their recent developments. Here it goes…

Saved searches
More search options and savable, search history
Saving presentations as .ppt
Offline Accessibility
Inserting YouTube videos into […]

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April 28th, 2008

Speaker Notes & Youtube Videos for Google Presentations

A couple of exciting features for Google Docs Presentation was released last week. Now, Google Presentation can have speaker notes that will serve as a guideline for presenters, keeping them guided throughout their presentation. You may print the notes or use it during the presentation.
Also, you can embed YouTube Videos to your presentation, adding more […]

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April 25th, 2008

Work with your Google Presentation and Spreadsheet Offline

With Google Docs initial rollout of its Offline functionalities (via Google Gears) last month, you can work as well offline with presentation and spreadsheet files. Remember that an this stage, it only allows view-only offline access to spreadsheets and presentations. Again, see the video below for a brief overview on how Google Docs Offline works.

So […]

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March 29th, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Express

Finally, after the long wait since I posted about Adobe Photoshop Express, it has been released to public.
Adobe Photoshop Express is an online photo-editing tool, allowing users to upload, edit and share photos online.

Well, with the functionalities available online is not much like of the desktop Photoshop. This is much like of a downgraded version […]

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March 27th, 2008

Google Docs gets Gadgets

Just recently, Google Docs adds more visual functionalities to its spreadsheet tools. They adopted the concept of Gadgets-in-Docs from iGoogle.
Now you can add Gadgets embedded in your spreadsheets and publish or share it. To do that, just follow this steps:

Login to your Google Docs Account.
Open a spreadsheet.
Click the chart icon found in the menu bar […]

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March 16th, 2008

TextGlow = Silverlight 2.0 + OOXML

Unveiled during the MIX08 in Las Vegas last March 5-7, 2008, was the new and first Office Open XML Application called TextGlow.
TextGlow is a Silverlight 2.0 application for viewing Word 2007 documents (DOCX) on the Internet. With TextGlow it is possible to instantly view a document within a web page, with no Microsoft Office applications […]

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