Google Drive Blog: Your feedback makes a difference: Product Ideas

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Your feedback makes a difference: Product Ideas

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Real-time collaboration. While we’ve had real-time collaboration in spreadsheets since 2006, we enhanced our collaboration in documents in April 2010 to be truly real-time. Now you can follow along character-by-character with your friends, family and colleagues.

Google Docs on mobile devices. You can now view and edit on your Google Docs on the go.

Convert more file types to Google Docs format. You can convert a variety of file types - from .doc to .txt to .pdf - to Google Docs format and vice versa.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This new feature interprets scanned files and PDF files and converts them to Google documents format.

A stand-alone drawings editor. You requested a mind mapping tool, and we delivered Google drawings. And to make your mind maps and drawings even better, we just added connectors.

Chat in documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Now you can ask fellow collaborators a question right in the document.

A more consistent look for all Google Docs editors. Documents, presentations and spreadsheets used to have different interfaces and varying menus.

Advanced sorting rules and in-cell drop down lists. These two features in Google spreadsheets now make your spreadsheet editing and organization more streamlined.