Comments on: Working smarter: Uses for Google Docs and Spreadsheets

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:57:04 +0000

Maybe the one problem I saw with having a Google Account to use Google Docs was that if I wanted to email out that document to a friend, the email wasn’t available unless I created that Gmail account. It might be available but my thinking was a loss of the ‘log’ track record. And I would prefer to have a shorter username so I went with Gmail. I also wanted to be able to access all my Contacts from any of their Google applications.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:57:19 +0000

You don’t need gmail. You can use any user name as long as you pick a password. Now if you aleady have a gmail account, it uses that as your identity but you can still log in with a non-gmail username.

By: William M. Hartnett

William M. Hartnett — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:43:25 +0000

Talk about Google addictions, mine is just about as severe as they come. (And you can add FeedBurner to that list, now that it’s part of the ever-expanding Google-verse.)

@bdure: You can enable POP3 access in Gmail and continue using your local e-mail client. You also can use Gmail to send e-mail under a different address. So if you’re forwarding all your you@work.com mail to Gmail, for example, you can respond to it in Gmail as you@work.com

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:44:39 +0000

Yes, import takes longer, but less time than cleaning up after a paste would. Yes, I agree on the &-n-b-s-p-;’s. I habitually run a global code search and replace of “&-n-b-s-p-; ” to ” “, which is fast. Many of those are artifacts from people who learned to always type two spaces after a period and haven’t gotten a ruler across the knuckles from Robin Williams, even after 20 years of DTP.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:32:26 +0000

Fantasy sports? What’s that?

By: bdure

bdure — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:47:43 +0000

Gmail? Yahoo mail? Am I the only poor sucker using e-mail through an ISP so I can check it through a Web interface AND keep it in Outlook?

I also have AOL (free now) and Hotmail (just to confuse spammers).

Am I supposed to get Gmail just for cultural literacy? What does it do? Will it aerate my lawn?

I’m interested in Google Docs, though. I hope Yahoo copies it soon so I can integrate it with my fantasy teams. (Honestly, what’s the big deal about Google? They don’t even have fantasy sports.)

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:47:28 +0000

Craig: I tried the import in Dreamweaver 8. It worked well, except for two things: (1) It took longer than the copying and pasting (probably because of all the formatting in the Word doc); (2) There was a very large number of &-n-b-s-p’s in the imported version. In the Google Docs version, I did not have those! But that import feature is good to know about — thanks!

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:15:05 +0000

WMH: “The plugin is a 700K download for Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+ that installs three developer APIs.” Maybe the answer to my prayers … or maybe too much Google in my system!

I am so devoted to my Google calendar, sometimes it worries me.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:12:29 +0000

Newspaperman: You’ve stumped me. I just tried to do what you said, and I can’t find any “Save as HTML” option in Google Docs. When you import the actual Word file (instead of pasting it), you still get all that MS Word crapola in the code. That stuff is poison.

By: Barbara Gavin

Barbara Gavin — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:08:29 +0000

Interesting use of Google Docs. Thank you for sharing.

Google Gears is something I haven’t tried yet - I think it was released like, duhh, yesterday?