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Jan. 30, 2007 at 8:59am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Google Officially Adds Docs & Spreadsheets Integration With Gmail
The Google Docs & Spreadsheets blog officially announced that when you receive an email in your Gmail account, and it contains a Google Docs or Spreadsheet file, the file should have a link to "Open as a Google Document."
I am not sure if it opens all files or just Google files. I tested emailing myself a Microsoft Word document and Google did not show me the "Open as a Google Document." A nice feature to add on top of this would be to easily email a Google Doc or Spreadsheet that you are currently working on to others.
Philipp Lenssen first spotted this being tested in early November of last year. This was unofficially reported a few days ago by Google Operating Systems and Googling Google, which claimed that Word documents are supported. It may have not worked with me because I sent a Word document from my Mac.
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PC here:
With spreadsheet the .xls does not appear to be able to display even simple charts
With docs, google has a tendency to to turn any text withing a frame into an uneditable image. Appears to just be generally buggy.
Still needs work, but this adds to google's lead with free email, and helpful stuff non-the-less
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.....and it is WAY cool - I was collaborating with a client through her new GMail account and Docs/Spreadsheets within minutes.
I was working on my mac and she was on a pc - seamless.
Now why would I want to buy Office 2007 when Google is here???
I'm wondering when Google Analytics will follow suit, and stop showing the excel icon (and mouseover text) for their CSV download.
PC here and I can confirm it opens word docs.
Did I mention how much I loathe typekey this week.