Google Docs - take your Office with you

Have you always wanted to access your word documents when you just stepped out of office?

Have you ever wanted to make changes to your calculation spreadsheet just before meeting a customer?

Have you ever wanted to leave that laptop in your office?

Now you can!

With Google Docs, your Office is the "Cloud", and you take it everywhere with you!

Best of all, it is the only Free full version document editor!

Since I started using PDA, my first being a Palm Zire, 7 years back, I have gotten used to having spreadsheets on-the-go for me to keep track of my finances. When I moved on to Windows Mobile, they all come with free Office Mobile. However, when I ditched Windows Mobile for Android, I had to find replacement. I had to download one of the paid Office apps to get the full features. Now, with Google Docs, I can still continue to use my paid Office app to sync with my Google Docs files. But for those who are not willing to pay for paid apps, Google Docs is your free solution!

Features

• Create, edit, upload and share your documents with the Google Docs app.
• Designed for Android to save you time finding your docs 
• Edits to your documents appear to collaborators in seconds
• Make quick changes to spreadsheets
• View your documents, PDFs, images and more.
• Upload and convert files to the Google Docs format
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - take a photo of printed text and convert it to a Google document
• Share docs with your phone’s contacts

How to maximise the use of Google Docs?

1. Log-in to your Google account on your desktop.
2. Go into Documents from Google menu.
3. Upload or Create your Spreadsheet (Excel), Document (Word), Presentation (Powerpoint), etc. into your personal Google Doc "cloud".
4. Do any editing using the web browser (no software installation required).
5. Save your file(s).
6. Download the Google Docs app from Android Market onto your mobile device.
7. Access your files from your mobile device.

Good

• Free full version Office app
• Easy to use
• No need to sync
• No cables needed
• Cloud computing = everywhere, anytime
• Share your documents easily

Caveat

• Works better on tablets
• Lesser formatting features compared to paid 3rd-party Office apps
• No 100% support file formatting