Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:50 PM
If you're an active Gmail user, you probably know that you can open Microsoft Word and Excel attachments from within Gmail and import them to Google Docs. Gmail also provided a basic View as slideshow option for PowerPoint attachments.Today we're improving this feature by making it easier for you to upload presentations from Gmail and edit them in Google Docs. When you receive a PowerPoint attachment, simply click the View option to open and preview the presentation in a new online viewer, powered by Google Docs. If you'd like to save the presentation to Google Docs, just click Edit Online and it'll be imported into Google Docs.
To read more about this new viewer, check out the Gmail blog.
9 comments:
Edit Online is a misnomer, that is many users may perceive it in another way than intended.
Edit Online suggests that the document can be opened from Gmail, edited, closed, and again opened from Gmail to continue editing.
What is meant instead of Edit Online is Import into your Google Docs account. As for further editing the presentation will have to be opened from Google Docs and not from Gmail.
Nice feature, but I'm still waiting for the possibility to import ODF presentations (.odp)...
In the last few days sometimes all google documents responde with a page load error, I still can see the document main page but nothing on spreadsheets.google.com. Is this a known issue or something on my side.
Cheers
Laszlo
A Google Desktop Spreadsheet Gadget would be really useful!
Many thanks to AHAB for his comments on major/minor Google Docs issues that his/her sharp mind rarely misses. As a non-expert I really appreciate such observations.
Is there any way to keep the "view as slideshow" option instead of directly import my attachments to google docs viewer?
thank you.
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One insecurity I have with GDocs for PPT is that it even converts PPS (not editable) files to PPT (editable). I am aware that behind the scenes, there is little difference in the data of pps or ppt. However, GDocs should be intelligent enought to understand the intent of the publisher (to allow viewers to be able to edit)based on the file extension.
This is just what I was looking for. The templates are a nice idea. Good Luck
more templates easy to download
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