We all use internet, yet we are unaware of it’s power & it’s features and only a fraction of it is utilized. We are constantly working on Word Documents, Spreadsheets and most of all – The Presentations. All of us must be using Microsoft’s products (OpenOffice.Org or StarOffice in extereme cases) but do they offer the power of collaboration.!! For this very reason I would like to turn your attention towards the world’s best office suite – Google Docs.

Google Docs is the best office suite, that gives you the power of collaboration. Google Docs consists of 3 Core Office applications -

• Documents
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations

Google Document -

It’s similar to MS-WORD, it provides you with all the features that MS-Word gives you, from writing text, editing, managing, changing styles, inserting images, etc. The plus point that MS-Word doesn’t give you is – Direct conversion of that document to HTML / PDF / DOC / RTF / TXT / ODT within seconds. Even MS-WORD Converts the Document to HTML but the HTML converted isn’t clean & recommended for direct use with Web. As far as PDF is concerned you need to have additional Software..!!

Google Spreadsheets -

I haven’t worked with the spreadsheets that long & deep, but still experience with it is good enough. Though looking around you’ll find all the formulas that Excel Gives – Column Sorting, Auto-fill, Charts, & some of them like integration with Google finance that even Excel can’t provide .

Google Presentations -

Now this is something which would bring MS to it’s knees. Presentations is one big thing that Google has recently launched on it’s 9th Anniversary. It’s still in BETA Stage – you won’t be able to add Animations to it, still You can create slides, use themes, etc.

The common features to all these 3 Superb products are -

• No Installations – No need to install, except your Browser & Internet Connection.
• Anytime Anywhere access.
• Off-Line & On-Line – Edit Off-line ( Word / Excel / Powerpoint ), upload and Access online.
• Support for large base of Export Formats.
• Simultaneous Editing of the same document.
• Share your Documents with Group of People or Publish it on the WWW.
• Simple yet Secure.
• Restore previous versions of the Documents.
• Invite Users to help you EDIT or Just View the document.
• Lucrative Template / CSS Support