Love ya Google - Docs

Topic: Google Docs|Level: Beginner-Intermediate|Type: Informational

Another really great Google product I just recently had to start using; Google Docs.
http://docs.google.com

Google Docs is a completely free (naturally) web-based system for creating, editing, organizing, and sharing various types of documents.
Docs provide support for working with
Documents (like Wordpad or MS Office Word),
Spreadsheets (like MS Office Excel),
Presentations (like MS Office PowerPoint) and
Forms (as in data-collection Forms you can then link/email/embed for other people to fill out)

You can even Upload documents started in most other similar products and Google Docs will automatically convert them.
Documents: HTML, Plain text (.txt), MS Word (.doc, .docx), Rich Text (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt) and StarOffice (.sxw)
Presentations: MS PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps)
Spreadsheets: Comma Seperated Value (.csv), MS Excel (.xls, .xlsx) and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods)
and PDF Files.
And you can even Export any document out of Google Docs back to the various other formats for other applications if you need.

So not only is Google Docs a really nice way to create and maintain your documents online (so you can even access them from any where with Internet access), but you can even Share them! When you Share a document you can choose to allow the people you share it with (by email address or anybody who's given a special link) to only be able to view the documents or also be able to edit them. Multiple people can even be in editing the same document and the same time! And all the document types automatically have a revision history so at any time you can go back to view the document prior to any revisions. And you can set the document to send you an email notification should anybody make changes to it.