Google docs explained – How to use google doc – features

Google Docs is one of the powerful collaboration suite which is available freely on internet with a decent version controlling system in place.

You can upload documents , presentations , spreadsheets and PDFs to your work space or you can specify the location of the document on web.

Once it is uploaded there are a lot of actions which you can perform on that document like , change owner, save as PDF , save and word , publish to your website etc. Most important and attractive features are Sharing and Revisions.

Google docs – revisions

With the revisions option you can track the changes made by you and the sharing partners.  At any point of time you can revert back to the earlier version and find the difference between the revisions .

Google docs – sharing

As discussed earlier documents uploaded can be shared with your friends and family in the contact list and you can control the access.

Practical example of Google Docs

If I need to share a working document with my friend which may require multiple updations, I would be uploading the document on my Google docs and share it with him ‘as collaborators’ so that document can be edited by both of us. In case of any difference of opinion always we can compare with the older version and even revert back to any of the older revisions.

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