documents.google.com

Google Docs is great. It gives you a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation solution all for free, all online, all from your Google account. It is basically Office on the web, replacing well known Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint with a solution that lets you access your files from anywhere in the world. With a limit of 5,000 stored word docs and presentations & 1,000 spreadsheets, you have plenty of room for all your files and without the worry of a hard drive crash wiping all your important data.

Apart from creating and saving new documents, Google Docs also allows you to import existing files from most popular formats like Microsoft Office, Open Office and .CSV, so you can even use it to backup the documents you already have and transition totally to Google Docs if you want to.

Other great features include;

• Fast & familiar interface, like most Google sites, Docs is designed to download pages fast and each program is set out to be familiar to uses of other Office suites.
• Share your work with others. You can let others access your documents so that they can view your progress or even set them up us a collaborator so files can be created by a group of people. Great for team presentations and projects.
• Just like Gmail, with it’s access-anywhere approach, you can open, edit & export your files from anywhere in the world and they can all be organized into folders/ file type/importance

This article is part of a series showing you stuff you can do with your Google Account.