Talk:Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

message: I just checked, and there is a way in which users can be notified of changes: when you 'publish' a document, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of subsequent changes.
On a different matter: any interest and / or objections to the contribution of an assessment of the licensing terms to this page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.82.69 (talk) 16:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change alerting limitation 

message: The folks maintaining List of office suites have decided not to include Google Docs & Spreadsheets, on account of it's not technically an office suite.  Would it make sense to remove the reference to that page on this one for the same reason?
--128.148.33.128 02:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Replaced with List of word processors. --John Seward 14:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding List of Office Suites 

message: was able to find the date announced that being March 9' 2006
my sources being http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html and http://writely.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_writely_archive.html
Atomic1fire 02:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: date of purchase for writely

message: Especially with articles regarding upcoming products (which are more prone to include speculation and POV than most articles), please be sure to cite sources when making edits =) rdude 04:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Should be Google Docs & Spreadsheets, right? --John Seward 13:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah --Mambo Jambo 22:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The move has been made. Oberiko 22:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article 

message: This section needs some wording adjustment, while you can change http to https for docs.google.com, only documents can be opened securely, spreadsheet links are non-SSL only at this time. --SubWolf 23:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, looks like you're right!  Thanks for noting this, I had no idea.  I haven't figured out a good way to word that section yet; if you have ideas, please edit! Nemilar 04:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security (HTTPS) 

message: It is speculated that Google will release more products in its MS Office competitor. Rumor has it that Google's next plan is releasing a presentation program, codenamed Presently (after Writely), similar to Microsoft's PowerPoint.  Ice Ardor 18:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation on Google Docs & Spreadsheets' future 

message: Nearly all of Google's services claim to not support Opera 9.0+, even when Opera functions identically to Firefox or IE. Google sniffs useragents to disallow Opera users. Spoofing the UA string fixes the problem.
Although still a beta release, Apple's Safari 3.0 is now available for Windows XP and Vista, and works with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.80.175.134.121 09:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Browser Support 

message: Google Spreadsheets does not require any special download/installations!  It does require a google (gmail) account.  What tech is used to implement the interactivity?  Java?  Javascript?
* On a PII-266, Win98SE, dialup: Quite slow to start.  Reasonable interactive performance with very simple test spreadsheets.
* On a 2GHz WinXP, (slow) broadband:  Good performance with simple test spreadsheets.
 What are the most important factors the determine performance in typical uses?-69.87.200.81 22:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spreadsheets 

message: According to their blog, they just bought out a presentation company. Might be time for microsoft to get worried :). Will need adding to the wiki as it is from their official blog Gigitrix 15:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the introductory paragraph. Oberiko 16:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Google Presentations

message: Can someone shine some light as to why this article is in the AJAX (Programming) category? 5pitfir3 19:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Presumably, because Google's on-line applications have APIs, making them easy to use for AJAX, and because it uses AJAX.  I'm not sure if its inclusion is warranted, though, because I'm not sure how much you can embed Google Docs into your own website.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.151.142 (talk) 12:23, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: AJAX (Programming category) query

message: Google Docs & Spreadsheets accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc. You can save your files to your own computer in DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODT, PDF, RTF and HTML formats.
Here's what you can do with documents:
* Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
* Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
* Invite others (by e-mail address) to edit or view your documents and spreadsheets.
* Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
* Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
Here's what you can do with spreadsheets:
* Import and export of .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data (and export functionality for .pdf and html).
*What exactly can I do with Google Docs & Spreadsheets?
*How do I save a document or spreadsheet to my computer?
*What's new in Google Docs & Spreadsheets?
-69.87.201.134 01:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  File formats 

message: Shoud this page have a comment on the Google Terms of Service?
see this page Google denies it owns your words and this pageThe Content in Google Apps Belongs to Google. Google Terms of Service
16:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Terms of Service 

message: Anyone else notice that pdf files output from the spreadsheet say "OpenOffice" in the producer metadata field?  Family Guy Guy (talk) 18:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, sorry. It's changed now. Writely documents says "Prince 6.0 (www.princexml.com)" and the spreadsheets say "iText 1.4.1 (by lowagie.com)"  Family Guy Guy (talk) 18:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Docs Uses OpenOffice PDF Writer? 

message: The size limitation only appears to apply for uploads. I copy-pasted a 3500 KB document in, saved it and published it and it worked fine. In fact, it's right here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d9fsc5t_4sqb6mkhh
May I suggest an edit?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.168.218 (talk) 20:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a little concerned about the Limitations and Security sections -- both sound like they were written by someone severely skeptical of the utility of the Docs suite, and as you pointed out, some of the claims may no longer be accurate. --AquaDoctorBob (talk) 09:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Document size and file limitations 

message: Google Document (the word processor) deffinately has a level of version tracking, and I'm fairly sure the other two applications do too.
This hasn't been mentioned in this article.
Is there any reason why? 
El Paulio (talk) 13:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). ffm 22:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks mention of version tracking 

message: What about the extreme basicness of the word-processor (not much above WordPad or HTML email) and the presentations module (only static slides)? I wish someone with more knowledge would write about these deficiencies, which, incidentally, have remained more or less unchanged for a very long time. APW (talk) 08:39, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, that is seen as an advantage by many, but, sadly, will probalby give into the above suggested over-engineering soon.--John Bessa (talk) 19:42, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great limitations not mentioned 

message: Security section only seems to exist to substantiate and sensationalise security blog posts. Maybe the blog author should see his own article of August 24th 2008 entitled 'The Looming Dangers of Security Vulnerability Sensationalism' to see why this is not a warranted sensationalisation.
Also, these claims have been made and reported to google multiple times earlier, such as http://blog.novedge.com/2007/09/google-docs-sec.html and http://www.ati.es/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=390&blogId=2 making at the very least the reference not notable. Fancy steve (talk) 07:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security 

message: The major technical issue for Gmail document share, IMO, is its slow refresh rate. I did insert a phrase into the article on this, but I'm unsure whether it's the end of the matter. Will all of this be superseded by Google Wave? Tony (talk) 14:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refresh rate 

message: One cannot upload and download files, only read files from google mail (I am using Nokia 5800).--Nopetro (talk) 08:56, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mobile Docs 

message: For editors who use this application you can add a userbox to your userpage if you like:
- Ahunt (talk) 21:01, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox

message: Section Features claims:
:Google Docs is amongst many cloud computing document-sharing services[21].
Which isn't true and isn't relevant. The docs are stored on Google Docs, the processing is made by the client and server computers. Everything is clear and identifiable, a classical client-server app. "Cloud computing" refers to distributed processor capacity bought per MIPS or such. What computer is performing the processing is irrelevant, it is one or many randomly/automatically selected computers in a server park. Google Docs have nothing to do with cloud computing. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 12:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Clearly, you're just arguing semantics here. I added a link that is appropriate. Timneu22 (talk) 19:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a central server system, a cloud is a network abstraction--the exact opposite.  It may have fit a cloud definition when it used google gears, which has since disappeared--possibly to implement mobwrite.--John Bessa (talk) 14:47, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Clear sky!!

message: DocVerse seems to be pointless. Lets merge it into this. Also, perhaps someone should discuss what DocVerse actually did (or does)! Timneu22 (talk) 16:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge DocVerse 

message: I didn't see anything about the Google Docs PDF Viewer - Google Chrome and Google Mail can be set up so that clicking on links to PDF files don't download them or open them in the browser with a plugin, but instead you're sent to Google Docs, which then loads the PDF file for you and lets you preview it on-screen. -- pne (talk) 11:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Docs PDF Viewer 

message: Many claim that doc's attempt to imitate Microsoft Word has crippled it; that when it was purely web-based, it was much more powerful.  The Google Docs division, or "team," had finally removed the last original composing mode, and with it web-publishing and blog-publishing, making it, in the opinions of many, useless except as an advertising icon of the largest advertising firm: Google.  The only new useful feature is Mobwrite that quite brilliantly allows instaneous collaboration, and is in the public domain.
The decline of Google Docs should stimulate the creation of a peer-to-peer collaboration suite, or perhaps protocol, that would allow democratic net collaboration without limitations imposed by oligarchic de-evoltuion (in our generation, or perhaps, just societal creep).--John Bessa (talk) 14:53, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism: Evolution or de-evolution of google docs? 

message: The screen-shots at the top really need to be updated. Google has changed its look entirely, and there are many new features not flaunted in the version shown. (It also looks a bit drab, so anybody discovering Google Docs through Wikipedia won't want to use it.) 41.138.236.42 (talk) 17:58, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshots and Images 

message: I have been trying to get the answer to this: How do I import an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet to Wikipedia? Someone suggested uploading it to Google Docs, but will that work, and is that the best way?  Allen (talk) 13:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it will work, You can convert OpenOffice Spreadsheet to MS format or Google Format by using Google Docs. --Jerrywjh (talk) 03:24, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: How do I do it?  Allen (talk) 10:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  OpenOffice.org Calc to MediaWiki 

message: 15GB is now provided free not 10GB as in script.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.113.80.55 (talk) 07:39, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no specification on their homepage, just "Download" to start, or "No Thanks." -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 15:30, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free storage 

message: I propose splitting this article into four individual articles I've created for Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. They include all information that is in this article without any additions. I sorted the information by product and even kept the same overall article structure. This brings this software suite in line with how Microsoft Office and it components of Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel are represented on Wikipedia. This also holds true for the Adobe Creative Suite. SBCornelius (talk) 17:38, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting 

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