Well, to keep the story short and simple. Everyone can now open attached word documents in Google Docs from Gmail. This has feature has been recently introduced, however this was an expected move as users were able to open excel sheets in Google spreadsheets from quite some time.
This is certainly helpful but is that really helpful in a sense Google Docs & Spreadsheets is yet not the best of the Office product till this date and thus we really don’t know that how many people will take the benefit out of it. I think Google will certainly need to improve its Goffice to capture the market completely.
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On the first line in a gmail page.
It is the usual heading that says the following :
Gmail Calendar Images News Groups Web more ▼ Books Scholar Blogs even more » emilymark7@gmail.com | Settings | Help | Sign Out
b u t….. I cannot find Document, which is supposed to give me my document and spreadsheets, what happened to them, what’s happening…?..?..?..!..!..!..?..?..?
Today is 28th Feb. Thursday @ 8.40am
Mr. gmail, now how am I going to do my work that has been created in my Docs & Spreadsheets..?
and I cannot retreive.. How now.. ? Got to do work lah..
is gmail working or not….???
is gmail working as it should be or not…..???
When can I have my docs and spreadsheet back in my gmail…???
@ Mrs Mark : Well, GMail is working fine. Well, you see that triangle, which is after more, if you’ll click on it, it’ll give you the option of Docs
through that you can open your documents and spreadsheets.
You can also go to documents and spreadsheets by opening up another window and going to the address http://docs.google.com
I hope this helps.