Googlified

A little bit behind on this one, but for those who haven’t noticed yet, Google Docs‘ document editor now has a new menu, bridging the gap between the online word processor and Microsoft Word, one little step at a time.

The above diagram from Google Blogoscoped shows that the menu of the document editor’s menu over time, since the time of Writely (before relaunching as Google Docs). As you can see, it ran a whole circle for one and a half years and pretty much back to where it started, except that it changed from yellow-green/olive to blue.

Also, you can now apply color to the name of your folders, like in Google Calendar and Gmail, and transfer ownership of documents with people that have the same domain in the email address (i.e. a@example.com can transfer document to b@example.com but cannot transfer to c@domain.com).

UPDATE: Forgot to add that Google Docs is now available in 48 languages.