New Features in Google Docs
Office January 4th, 2008 - By Haochi
Google today introduced a series of new features to Google Docs - mostly to Google Presentations - to kick off the new year. For Google Presentations, we have:
- Embeddable presentations - code can be found under the “Publish” tab
- Importing slides from other presentations
- Drag and drop image insertion from other websites
- Rearranging slides
- Changing the background
- Prettier toolbar
And for managing documents on Google Docs, we have a new feature that allows us to created sub-folders and we can rename the documents from the home page of Google Docs, without the hassle of opening the document first. I am not sure if this is new, but the URL changes (well, the fragment part) as you go to different sections in Google Docs, like that of the new version of Gmail.
So, when are we going to be able to export the presentations in formats that can be read by other presentation programs?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
And still no upload for OpenOffice.org presentations… I wonder when they will add OOo support.
But the slideshows are really nice. Mixes well with youtube videos. Maybe there will be some listing similar to Google Video or Youtube someday where presentations can be shared with others. And a way to launch the already existing fullscreen mode would be very nice too. Well there is always a wish-list…