Google Drive Blog: 2012

Make the most of your holiday gifts and time at home with Google Drive

Friday, December 21, 2012

Google DriveFor laptops & desktops download Drive for Mac or PCon the web

For mobile phones & tabletsDrive mobile app for Android or iOSon the webMore holiday tips & tricks

Scan or snap a photo of a classic family holiday recipe and upload it to Drive for safe keeping and sharing.

Search for recipes that you’ve already stored in Drive. You can even search for keywords inside PDFs and photos.

Jot down a new delicious recipe right from the kitchen with Docs in the Drive mobile app for Android and iOS.

Use Sheets for your grocery shopping list. Create it on your computer at home, then pull it up on your phone at the grocery store and cross of items as you go.

Create a quick form to invite friends to your holiday get together and figure out who’s coming, what they’re bringing, etc.

Your favorite apps, with Google Drive (Holiday Edition)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Apps in Google Drive seriesCafePress: Create a personalized gift using pictures stored in Google Drive. Get the app

WeVideo: Make a video (fancy editing skills not required). Get the appUJam: Create new holiday tunes. Get the app

Introducing the Save to Drive extension, plus enhancements to images

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Save to Drive Chrome extension

an image of an entire page or an image of the visible page

the HTML source code

a Web archive (.mht)

work with images

5,000 new stock images in Google Drive, thanks to you

Thursday, December 6, 2012

A few months agostock images Google Drive +page

Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

just like you can with Google Docs

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Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Cross-posted from the Gmail blog

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Gmail's new compose experience
Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager

Some new ways to get stuff done in Google Drive

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Search by person: Can't remember the name of a file but know who shared it with you? Now Drive search auto-completes people’s names making it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for.

View Google Earth map files: You can now open, preview, and interact with Google Earth files (.kml and .kmz) right inside Google Drive on the web.

Create new folders while organizing files: Now when you select files in your Drive list, in addition to adding them to an existing folder, you can add them directly to a new folder.

Drag and drop folders in Chrome: If you’re using Chrome, you can drag and drop entire folders from your desktop to Drive on the web.

Search includes your trash: Sometimes files you are looking for accidentally ended up in your trash, so now search results include files there too.

Co-write a song, tell a shared story with the Gone Google Story Builder

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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If you feel up to it, post your best creation to Google+ with the tag #gonegoogle - we’ll feature a few favorites next week on our Google+ page.
Posted by Preston Hershorn, Product Marketing Manager

Share your stuff from Google Drive to Google+

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Research tool updates: quick access to your stuff in Docs, Slides & Drawings

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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(Previewing and inserting a spreadsheet from Google Drive)

One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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Chromebook

Less is more

Monday, October 15, 2012

Compact Mode

Table improvements and easier formatting in documents

Friday, October 5, 2012

Select all matching text

Edit charts in Google spreadsheets with just a click

Monday, September 17, 2012

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Move and Resize

(Before/After)

Google Drive is the new home for all your Google Docs and more. Get started.

Monday, September 17, 2012

launched Google Drive

With Google Drive, you’ll get access to new features.

Access everywhere, every device. Drive comes with desktop and mobile apps, making it much easier to upload, sync and access your stuff from any device. Get Drive for Android and iOS and you can create and edit documents, open and share files, and upload photos and videos.

Find your stuff faster. Look for files by keyword and Drive searches everything — even text within scanned documents or images without any text at all. Drive also comes with a simplified navigation to help you better organize your files, and there's a new grid view to help you see thumbnails at a glance.

Work with more apps in Drive. Google Drive is integrated with a growing number of third-party apps, so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups all in one place.

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Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android

Monday, September 10, 2012

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)

Every day, more and more people are choosing to live online and get things done in the cloud. Helping to make this experience as seamless as possible, Google Drive is one place where you can create, share and keep all your stuff. Drive is available on the web, as well as Mac, Windows and Android and iOS.Updates for iOSDrive appeditAndroid appcreate a new document, edit an existing one or format text

presentationscreate new folders, move files into folders and upload stuffUpdates for Android More to come... App StorePlay Storedrive.google.com/start

Google spreadsheets, now with discussions

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Lock down cells with Protected Ranges in Google spreadsheets

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Named RangesName and protect range
Even more spreadsheet features added this month regular expressions

450+ new ways to make your Google presentations pop

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

slide transitions and animationsthousands of free stock photosgrowing collection of templatesAdd fonts

Google documentsCalligrafittiIndie FlowerShort Stack

Offline updates and a quick look back at June

Friday, July 13, 2012

announcedDrive app for iOSenable Docs offlineMore > Offline Docs

updates to Google Apps Script including a standalone script editor, the ability to create richer user interfaces, options to easily store your application’s data, and support for publishing scripts to the Chrome Web Store

expanded language support in the documents and presentations spellchecker to include German, French and Italian

the ability to print documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to any cloud connected printer with Google Cloud Print from any browser

up to 400pt font support in documents and presentations

copying and pasting images from your desktop into a document or presentation

an easy way to edit or open links from text by right clicking on them

Posted by Owen Merkling, Software Engineer

Announcing your two most requested features: offline document editing and Drive for iOS

Thursday, June 28, 2012

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Hang out – live on air – with the Google Drive & Docs team

Friday, June 8, 2012

Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise blog.Editor's note: Hangouts On Air are live video chats, interviews, or performances that are broadcast to Google+. We’ll host these broadcasts from time to time on the Google Enterprise Google+ page to give you the inside scoop on our business and products. Google Enterprise Google+ pageGoogle Apps for BusinessGoogle EnterpriseGoogle DocsPosted by Julia Harter, Google Enterprise team

Google Docs: May in Review

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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the addition of five new themes (Color Strip, Inspiration Board, Lesson Plan, Steps, and Wave) to Google Presentations.

the ability to search for scholarly works in the research pane.

making it possible to put a Google Doc in a folder without leaving it by clicking on the folder icon to the right of the star in the toolbar.

teaching the new spellchecker a few more languages (Spanish, Dutch, and Finnish).

adding Alt+Enter (Option+Enter on Mac) as a keyboard shortcut for opening links. Simply place your cursor on a link and press the shortcut to open the link in a new tab.

the introduction of libraries and versions to Google Apps Script to make it easier for developers to organize, share and reuse their code.

Find facts and do research inside Google Documents

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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April in Review: New fonts galore and other fresh features

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Google documents

Google Web Fonts

your first comic bookfancy handwriting for your wedding invitations

Google Drive launched as a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all your stuff.

There are now a few more options for inserting images in Docs, including inserting from Google Drive, searching for images from the LIFE Photo archive, or taking a snapshot with your webcam.

Charts in spreadsheets now has support for minor gridlines and options to customize the formats of axis labels

Accessibility in Docs got better with support for screenreaders in presentations and with the addition of NVDA to our list of supported screenreaders.

From File > Page setup... you can now set the default page size for your new documents.

It's now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that might use them.

Apps Script had many improvements, including

A new ScriptService for programmatically publishing your scripts and controlling when they run.
A new function to find the root folder of someone’s Drive.
An increase in the allowed attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
An increase in the size of docs files you can create from 2MB to 50MB.

There are now over 60 new templates in our template gallery.

Posted by Isabella Ip, Software Engineer

Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

(Cross posted from the Official Google Blog)Loch Ness Monster

Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items.

Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). All your stuff is just... there. You can access your stuff from anywhere—on the web, in your home, at the office, while running errands and from all of your devices. You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. We’re also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader.

Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time.

overall Google experiencesend faxesedit videoscreate website mockupsChrome Web Storedrive.google.com/startPosted by Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome & Apps

March in Review: Improved charting, expanded language support, and Apps Script updates

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

debuted a new spell checkerNew charting options

annotationsa second Y axisdonut chartsOCR and spreadsheets support more languagesOptical Character Recognitionright-to-left supportMore ways to use Google Apps Script Google Apps Script

Support for adding your own HTML to your script’s dialogues and pages. Let’s say you wrote a script that prompts collaborators to play a game when they open a certain spreadsheet. It’s now possible to include more sophisticated HTML, like a table in the dialog that you built.

The option to programmatically set sheet protection in Apps Script. If you’re a teacher, you could add a script that automatically looked at all your spreadsheets and made sure that you’re the only one allowed to edit any sheet named “Grades”.

A redesign to the Apps Script menus. Sometimes when you’re starting a new project you’ll want to use scripts that you’ve already created. The menu changes make it easier for you to reuse scripts that you’ve already built and to share your scripts with other people .

Spell checking powered by the web

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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Suggestions are contextual. For example, the spell checker is now smart enough to know what you mean if you type “Icland is an icland.”

Contextual suggestions are made even if the misspelled word is in the dictionary. If you write “Let’s meat tomorrow morning for coffee” you’ll see a suggestion to change “meat” to “meet."

Suggestions are constantly evolving. As Google crawls the web, we see new words, and if those new words become popular enough they’ll automatically be included in our spell checker—even pop culture terms, like Skrillex.

Posted by Yew Jin Lim, Software Engineer

Improved discussions, search scanned text in PDFs, and more

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

discussions to Google presentationsedit within the Google Docs Android appAll your comments--in one tidy placedrawings

Better text search for PDFs and images optical character recognition technology

And that’s not all...

Add custom Javascript and CSS to your Google Sites

See full names in document and presentation comments (instead of showing email addresses)

Use keyboard shortcuts for navigating between table cells in documents

Cancel running scripts from the Google Apps Script editor

Add donut charts and error bars in spreadsheets

Collaborate and edit anywhere with the updated Google Docs for Android

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Sydney officeGoogle Docs app for Androidsomething important If you want to hear about the latest Docs news or send us feedback on the new app, visit Google Docs on Google+.

Gotta run--I’ve got another ferry to catch!

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Great presentations start with great discussions

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

brand new versiondocumentsImport slidesFilethese instructionsour Google+ page

Our team's new Google+ Page

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

new Google+ pageadd us to your circles

January in Review: Styles, Sparklines, Google+ sharing, and more

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Customizable styles in documentsrestyleUpdate Subtitle to match selectionOptions
Sparklines in spreadsheets and more charting optionssparklinesnew options

Sharing forms on Google+ Google+ share

And there’s more…

Adding images to your docs from a high quality stock photo gallery. Simply go to Insert > Image, select Stock photos, and then search for the images that you want.

A more streamlined format for document discussion notifications that batches multiple discussions into a single email.

Quickly opening and selecting items from specific menus with keyboard accelerators. For example, when using Google Chrome, Ctrl+Option+E on a Mac and Alt+E on Windows or Linux will open the Edit menu.