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Google Office Hacks
Can Google applications really become an alternative to the
venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may
say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now,
100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of
Google office applications. So are large corporations such
as General Electric and Proctor &
Gamble. Google Apps Hacks
gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to
push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit.
The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help
you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of
Google's web-based applications for word processing,
spreadsheets, PowerPoint-style presentations, email,
calendar, and more by giving you ways to exploit the suite's
unique network functionality. You get plenty of ways to
tinker with:
Google Documents -- Share and edit documents with others in
real time, view them on the run with Google Docs mobile
service, and use Google Notebook for web research
Google Spreadsheets -- Add real-time data to spreadsheets,
and generate charts and tables you can embed in web pages
Google Presentations -- View them on a mobile phone and save
them as video
Gmail -- Send email to and from a mobile phone, adjust
Gmail's layout with a style sheet, and a lot more
iGoogle -- Create your own gadgets, program a screenscraper,
add Flash games, and more
Google Calendar -- Add web content events, public calendars,
and your Outlook Calendar to this application
Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google
SketchUp: the new 3D modeling software tool
Picasa, YouTube, and Google Video -- discover new ways to
customize and use these media management apps
In addition, Google Apps Hacks outlines ways you can create
a simple web site with nothing but Google tools, including
Page Creator, Blogger, Google Analytics, and content from
other Google apps. This amazing collection just might
convince you that Microsoft Office is not the last word in
business applications. The price is certainly right.
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