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Data Liberation, "Mark as viewed", and New!
Monday, October 26, 2009
A couple weeks ago, we launched a
multi-file uploader
to make it much easier for you to put files into the cloud. Today we're launching a new feature to make it much easier to get your content out.
That's right, it's our first major offensive on the
Data Liberation Front
: "Convert, Zip and Download."
Select one or more files and then click on "Export" from the "More Actions" menu. Next, pick the format (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, etc) you want for your exported files. Finally, click "Continue" and we'll give you a nice zip file to download that has all your content.
For now, you can "export" up to 500 MB of content in a single zip file, which is over 20,000 typical files. Sometimes it takes us a few minutes to export really large amounts of files, so instead of making you wait, we added an "Email when ready" option. We'll send you a link when the zip file is ready.
We've made some other improvements to Docs as well. We've added indicators on whether you've "viewed" an item or not. "Unviewed" files are in bold, while "viewed" files are not. You can toggle this setting by selecting the item and clicking on "Mark as (Un)Viewed" in the "More Actions" menu.
We rounded out this feature with a "New!" indicator that is displayed when items are initially shared to you. So when an item is first shared to you, it will be bold ("Unviewed") and marked as "New!". Once you view this item, the item is listed normally. And, of course, when the item is updated by someone else, we mark it as "Unviewed" again.
Give the features a whirl and
let us know what you think
.
Posted by: Vijay Bangaru, Product Manager, Google Docs
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