Google Docs
Powerful online word processor with real-time collaboration, document conversion from Word, extensive formatting options, revision history, and multilingual capabilities, all integrated within the Google Drive ecosystem, accessible through any internet-connected device.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
- Real time collaboration
- Team Collaboration
- Cloud based
- Collaborative writing
- Online Sharing
- High Availability
- Office Online integration
- Autosave log
- File Versioning
- Upload directly to Google Drive
- Text formatting
- Scanner
- Online collaboration
- Google Login
- Dark Mode
Sync with Google Calendar
IFTTT Integration- Works Offline
- Multiple Font Colors
- Export to PDF
Google Docs News & Activities
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What is Google Docs?
Google Docs is a web-based word processor part of 
Google Drive . It allows users to create, format, and share text documents in real-time. Users can upload Word documents and convert them into Google documents for easy editing. It offers features to adjust document aesthetics like margins, spacing, fonts, and colors. Users can also invite others to collaborate on a document with different access levels.
Google Docs provides a revision history to revert to previous versions. It allows downloading documents in various formats like Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML, or zip file. It also has a translation feature and the ability to email documents as attachments.
Google Docs information
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Proprietary and Free product.Rating
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16 news article related to Google DocsSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
- Korean
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Oriya
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Chinese
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
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Comments and Reviews
"Help Docs improve" button with optional screenshots is just great sometimes!
Google docs is not a good alternative for microsoft office. If you need to do things online, I would still recommend microsoft office online.
Fast cloud-based word processor, with mobile support and really good collaboration features.
Too bad I don't trust Google's servers any more than Microsoft's these days.
I used it a lot during the 2010s, but I've switched to using
LibreOffice on my own computer and using my own cloud sync when I need it.
Still one of the best online collaboration tools for working with text that almost everyone is familiar with. Great version history, commenting, and editing features. The UI is simple enough, and yet there are a lot of powerful features under the hood. Been using it for many years with many different people, and it's just consistently reliable and stable.
They have many minor improvements over years. They don't make news for every change. Some features can be undocumented.
Try new things yourself!
Google is just the best for online work. Editing and suggesting modes are amazing for team work and learning without immediate changes.
Used it to write my papers in college/uni. It took off alot of stress, since it saves automatically in the cloud. Google's format doesn't take up any space in Google Drive. Files can be downloaded as pdfs, docx, odf, and others. I mostly download files as docx. Combined with LibreOffice for local use, it's pretty useful.
It's recommend for taking notes, and making bibliographies. Most of my classmates and I used Google's office suit to collab on assignments if needed.