Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Google has gone a step further in its rivalry with Microsoft. It has launched a brand new service, called Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This is an online document creation and management system. Google had earlier launched Google Spreadsheets. They soon became very popular, and for obvious reasons. They were completely free. They were online, and so could be accessed from anywhere. And they could be shared with anyone you want to. Now, Google has integrated power of text documents also with this service, and has renamed this as Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Earlier, there was a separate website especially for creating and managing online text documents. It was www.writely.com. It had exactly the same concept as Google Spreadsheets. So, Google simply took over that website, and amalgamated it with their already existing spreadsheets, to complete the suite.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets can basically be considered as your small, free, online office suite. To access this, you need to be connected to internet. The website for this is docs.google.com. Once you go to this website, you need to sign in with your Google id. You can create one if you do not have already. As is with most Google services, this service is also completely free of cost. You do not need to download any software to use this service. Also, the best part is that you can upload your existing documents also. It supports lot of different formats, such as doc, RTF etc.