Google Drive Blog
The latest news and updates from the Google Drive team.
Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
You’re making your list, you’re checking it twice—and now you can do it from anywhere.
Just in time for this year’s holiday season, you can edit Google Sheets on your mobile device,
just like you can with Google Docs
. From the Drive app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device, you can create a new spreadsheet or edit an existing one. You can switch fonts, resize columns, sort data, and more. And just like on your computer, you’ll be able to see other people’s edits in real time as they’re made.
Beyond spreadsheets, you may notice a few other tweaks to the Drive app, including better text formatting when you copy and paste in a Google document. And if you’re using an Android device, you can now edit text within tables in documents and add a shortcut on the homescreen of your device to any specific file in Drive.
Whether it’s holiday recipes, shopping lists, or just your family budget, the Drive app on your mobile device makes it easy to get stuff done wherever you are.
Get the Google Drive app today from
Google Play
and the
Apple App Store
.
Posted by Shrikant Shanbhag, Software Engineer
Research tool updates: quick access to your stuff in Docs, Slides & Drawings
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A few months ago, the
research tool
was added to Docs to make it easier for you to search for and add web results, images, quotations, maps, and articles to your document. Starting today, the research pane is also available in Slides and Drawings, and searches now include your stuff in addition to web results.
With the research pane, you can now quickly find and use your stuff: include part of a presentation stored in Drive, insert an image from your Picasa albums, or grab a quote from a friend’s Google+ post. (Google Apps customers will only see web results in their research panes.)
(Previewing and inserting a spreadsheet from Google Drive)
Posted by: Vivek Agarwal, Software Engineer
One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Google Drive is a place where you can create, share, collaborate and keep all your stuff. Of course, there are times you want to start a new document right away–say, to take notes in class or prepare a last-minute presentation for your boss.
To make it even easier for you to create stuff quickly, Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations–now called
Docs
,
Sheets
, and
Slides
–are available as apps in the
Chrome Web Store
. Once installed, shortcuts to these apps will appear when you open a new tab in Chrome.
If you use a
Chromebook
, you’ll see Docs, Sheets, and Slides in your apps list by default following the next update to Chrome OS in a few weeks.
Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management
Less is more
Monday, October 15, 2012
Ever wanted more room to get stuff done in Google documents? Click the new button in the upper right corner of your screen to enter
Compact Mode
, and everything above the formatting menu will collapse and give you another inch or so to work with.
You can also now quickly take menu actions by typing in the new search box. For example, if you type in “Picture,” you’ll see different options for adding graphics to your document.
Posted by Arnav Shah, Software Engineer
Table improvements and easier formatting in documents
Friday, October 5, 2012
Starting today, it’s easier to work with tables and to make formatting changes in Google documents.
You can now select any grid of cells in a table, which makes it much easier to make table formatting changes, like bolding just a single column.
Copy-and-paste of table cells is also improved. For example, you can copy a single word into many cells simply by highlighting those cells before you paste.
Or if you copy multiple cells from one table to another, the copied text will be pasted without creating a table in a table.
Finally, if you want to make changes to a series of similarly formatted text (like changing every blue and underlined link) throughout your document at once, right click on text with the formatting you want to change, choose “
Select all matching text
,” and apply new formatting in bulk, instead of individually updating each occurrence.
Posted by Isabella Ip, Software Engineer
Google Drive is the new home for all your Google Docs and more. Get started.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Several months ago, we
launched Google Drive
: one place to create, collaborate, share and keep all your stuff. If you’ve used Docs in the past, Google Drive is the new home for all your files and folders including your Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
This means all your files that were previously stored in Google Docs will now be available in Google Drive. If you haven’t already started using Google Drive, you’ll see a message to try it out the next time you visit docs.google.com.
With Google Drive, you’ll get access to new features.
Access everywhere, every device.
Drive comes with
desktop and mobile apps
, making it much easier to upload, sync and access your stuff from any device. Get Drive for
Android
and
iOS
and you can create and edit documents, open and share files, and upload photos and videos.
Find your stuff faster.
Look for files by keyword and Drive searches everything — even text within scanned documents or images without any text at all. Drive also comes with a simplified navigation to help you better organize your files, and there's a new grid view to help you see thumbnails at a glance.
Work with more apps in Drive.
Google Drive is integrated with a growing number of
third-party apps
, so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups all in one place.
Just in case you’re not quite ready for change, you can click the “Temporarily use the old look” button on the pop-up message, but eventually all Docs users will be switched to Drive.
You may also have noticed a few other changes in the Docs world. First, you’re reading this post on the brand new googledrive.blogspot.com. But don’t worry--if you were subscribed to googledocs.blogspot.com, you’ll still automatically get all of our updates in your feed.
Our social sites have also made the switch to Drive, so if you aren’t already, follow us on
plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive
and
twitter.com/googledrive
to stay up on the latest news and updates from our team.
Visit the help center to
learn more
.
Posted by Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager
Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android
Monday, September 10, 2012
(
Cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
)
Every day, more and more people are choosing to live online and
get things done in the cloud
. Helping to make this experience as seamless as possible,
Google Drive
is one place where you can create, share and keep all your stuff. Drive is available on the web, as well as
Mac
,
Windows
and
Android
and
iOS
.
Updates for iOS
Starting today, if you’re using the
Drive app
on your iOS device you can also
edit
Google documents, just as you can with the
Android app
. From your iPhone or iPad, you can
create a new document, edit an existing one or format text
. And just like on your computer, you’ll be able to see other people’s edits instantly as they’re made.
You’ll also notice other new improvements to the iOS Drive app. For example, you can now view Google
presentations
on your iPhone or iPad, including speaker notes, full-screen mode and the ability to swipe between slides. You can also
create new folders, move files into folders and upload stuff
(like photos and videos) from your device directly in the Drive app.
Updates for Android
We’re also updating the Drive app for Android phones and tablets today. You can now add comments, reply to existing comments and view tables in your Google documents. And you’ll have the same new abilities to view presentations and organize your stuff as your friends with iPhones do.
More to come...
Looking ahead, we have plenty more planned for the Drive mobile apps—including native editing and real-time collaboration for Google spreadsheets. Stay tuned.
Get Drive in the
App Store
for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and visit the
Play Store
to get the latest on your Android phone or tablet. To learn more about Google Drive, visit
drive.google.com/start
.
Posted by Anil Sabharwal, Senior Product Manager
Offline updates and a quick look back at June
Friday, July 13, 2012
Summer brings fun in the sun (in our hemisphere, at least) and a bunch of updates to Google Drive. A few weeks ago at Google I/O, we
announced
a couple of highly requested features: the ability to edit Google documents offline and a
Drive app for iOS
.
When you
enable Docs offline
in Google Drive, you can create & edit Google documents and view Google spreadsheets, without being connected to the internet. Today we updated the offline experience so it looks the same as when you’re online - except it’s filtered to show just your offline docs. Here’s an extra tip: if you want to preview which files are available offline, select
More > Offline Docs
in the left navigation pane while you’re still connected to the web. This update will roll out to all Drive users over the next few days.
In the past month we’ve also made several other improvements like:
updates
to Google Apps Script including a
standalone script editor
, the ability to create richer user interfaces, options to easily store your application’s data, and support for publishing scripts to the Chrome Web Store
expanded language support in the
documents and presentations spellchecker
to include German, French and Italian
the ability to print documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to any cloud connected printer with Google Cloud Print from any browser
up to 400pt font support in documents and presentations
copying and pasting images
from your desktop into a document or presentation
an easy way to edit or open links from text by right clicking on them
Posted by Owen Merkling, Software Engineer
Announcing your two most requested features: offline document editing and Drive for iOS
Thursday, June 28, 2012
In April, we
introduced
Google Drive, a place where you can create, share, and keep all your stuff. Today at the Google I/O conference
we announced
two new ways to
get things done
in the cloud: offline editing for Google documents and a Drive app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Offline document editing
No internet connection? No big deal. With
offline editing
, you can create and edit Google documents and leave comments. Any changes you make will be automatically synced when you get back online.
You can enable offline editing from the gear icon in
Google Drive
and find more detailed instructions for getting set up in the
Help Center
. Note that you’ll need the latest versions of
Chrome
or
ChromeOS
to edit offline. We’re also working hard to make offline editing for spreadsheets and presentations available in the future.
Google Drive for iOS
We launched the
Drive app for Android
phones and tablets a few weeks ago, and starting today, Google Drive is
available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
.
With the Drive app, you can open PDFs, photos, videos, documents and anything else stored in your Drive while you're on the go. You can also search all your files, add collaborators to documents, and make files
available offline
to view them even without an internet connection. For blind and low-vision users, the app also works great in
VoiceOver mode
. Learn more about what you can do with the app in our
Help Center
.
Get Drive in the
App Store
for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5.0+ and visit the
Play Store
to get the latest on your Android phone or tablet.
To learn more about Google Drive, visit
drive.google.com/start
.
Posted by Clay Bavor, Product Management Director
Find facts and do research inside Google Documents
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Today we’re introducing the
research pane
—a new feature that brings the web’s wealth of information to you as you’re writing documents.
The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India or you're looking for the perfect presidential quote for a political science paper, you don’t even have to open a new tab.
You can access the research pane from the
Tools
menu by right clicking on a selected word that you want to learn more about, or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows or Cmd+Alt+R on Mac. From the research pane, you can search for whatever info you need to help you write your document. With just a couple clicks you can look up maps, quotes, images, and much more.
If you find something you like, you can add it by clicking the insert button or, for images, by dragging them directly into your document. If appropriate we’ll automatically add a footnote citation so there’s a record of where you found the info.
Hopefully bringing knowledge from the web to Google documents will make your writing process just a little bit more efficient.
Posted by Sarveshwar Duddu, Software Engineer
April in Review: New fonts galore and other fresh features
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
In the past month we’ve made updates both big and small to Google Docs, and today we’re announcing one more: web fonts in Google documents. Often the best way to get your point across is to present your idea in a creative, captivating way. Today, we added over 450 new fonts to
Google documents
to make it easier for you to add a little something extra to whatever you create.
To use these new fonts, click on the font menu and select “Add fonts” at the very bottom, which will take you to a menu of all the
Google Web Fonts
available.
Once you’ve selected new fonts, you’ll be able to select them from the font menu.
Whether you’re looking for the perfect font for
your first comic book
or
fancy handwriting for your wedding invitations
, we hope you try out the new fonts and create some eye-catching documents.
In addition to hundreds of new fonts, we have a lot of other exciting updates to report:
Google Drive
launched as a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all your stuff.
There are now a few more options for inserting images in Docs, including inserting from Google Drive, searching for images from the LIFE Photo archive, or taking a snapshot with your webcam.
Charts in spreadsheets now has support for minor gridlines and options to customize the formats of axis labels
Accessibility in Docs got better with
support for screenreaders
in presentations and with the addition of NVDA to our
list of supported screenreaders
.
From
File > Page setup
... you can now set the default page size for your new documents.
It's now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that might use them.
Apps Script had many improvements, including
A
new ScriptService
for programmatically publishing your scripts and controlling when they run.
A new function to
find the root folder
of someone’s Drive.
An increase in the allowed attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
An increase in the size of docs files you can create from 2MB to 50MB.
There are now
over 60 new templates
in our template gallery.
Posted by Isabella Ip, Software Engineer
Spell checking powered by the web
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
One of my early projects at Google was to improve the suggestions that are made when a query is misspelled in Google Search. The neat thing about that system is that it’s adaptive: our suggestions get smarter and smarter based on the words
Googlebot
sees as it explores the web.
But search isn’t the only place where I make spelling mistakes! And that got me wondering: could we take this adaptive technology and use it to make spell checking better in other places?
The answer is yes. To prove it, today we’re launching an update to spell checking in documents and presentations that grows and adapts with the web, instead of relying on a fixed dictionary. This update has a few big advantages over traditional spell checkers:
Suggestions are contextual. For example, the spell checker is now smart enough to know what you mean if you type “Icland is an icland.”
Contextual suggestions are made even if the misspelled word is in the dictionary. If you write “Let’s meat tomorrow morning for coffee” you’ll see a suggestion to change “meat” to “meet."
Suggestions are constantly evolving. As Google crawls the web, we see new words, and if those new words become popular enough they’ll automatically be included in our spell checker—even pop culture terms, like Skrillex.
This new spell checker is available for English documents and presentations, but we plan to bring it to more languages soon. We’re really excited to give you a spelling system that continuously gets better. We hope it will make writing more efficient and enjoyable for you.
Posted by Yew Jin Lim, Software Engineer
Improved discussions, search scanned text in PDFs, and more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Fresh on the heels of adding
discussions to Google presentations
and the ability to
edit within the Google Docs Android app
, we’ve been hard at work on a few other new features to enhance your Google Docs experience.
All your comments--in one tidy place
We just added the discussions feature to Google
drawings
, and today we’re making it even easier to see a log of all of the comments that have been made whether you’re using drawings, documents, or presentations. Just click on the “Comments” button in the upper right corner of the editor to see a complete history of your discussions. You can reply in line, resolve or re-open comments, link directly to a comment, or change notification settings--without ever leaving the “Comments” menu.
Better text search for PDFs and images
Last month, we launched a feature to let you search for text inside the PDFs in your documents list. Now, using the same
optical character recognition technology
, you can search for and copy highlighted text when you open a scanned PDF, like a fax or hotel receipt.
It’s not just stuff in your documents list: we’ve also made text in PDFs and images uploaded to Google Sites searchable.
And that’s not all...
In addition to the features that were released today, over the last few weeks we’ve also made a bunch of other changes that you may have noticed. Now you can:
Add
custom Javascript and CSS
to your Google Sites
See full names in document and presentation comments (instead of showing email addresses)
Use keyboard shortcuts for navigating between table cells in documents
Cancel running scripts from the Google Apps Script editor
Add
donut charts
and error bars in spreadsheets
Posted by Ian Kilpatrick, Software Engineer
January in Review: Styles, Sparklines, Google+ sharing, and more
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
One of the best things about working on web apps like Google Docs is that it gives us the flexibility to frequently bring you new features and improvements. Starting this month, we’re going to make some small changes to how we communicate what’s been happening in the world of Docs. Instead of writing blog posts for each and every minor update, we're going to try bundling them together monthly to give you a detailed overview of our favorite features and a short list of other notable changes to make sure you don't miss out on anything new.
On that note, we’ve got a bunch of new features that launched today, as well as some great things that improved over the month of January.
Customizable styles in documents
Giving your document consistent and beautiful formatting should be easy. Before today, if you wanted to update all the Subtitles in your document to look a particular way, you had to change each of them one at a time. That’s too many steps. Now you can
restyle
all your regular paragraphs, headings, or titles with just a couple clicks. For example, if you want to update all the Subtitles in your document to be a particular size, set one Subtitle to that size, select it, right click and choose
Update Subtitle to match selection
. This will change all the Subtitles already in your document and automatically update the style for any new Subtitles you create. Plus, with the new
Options
menu in the styles dropdown, you can set the current document’s styles as the default for new documents or you can load your default styles into the current document.
Sparklines in spreadsheets and more charting options
In Google spreadsheets, we’ve added more charting options and support for
sparklines
to make it easier to communicate data. The
new options
give you a bunch of tools to create more sophisticated charts including different Y-axes on either side of the chart, formatting options for the axis and title text, and all sorts of other customization for how your lines, bars, or pies are displayed. We’ve also added sparklines, which let you display line or bar charts inside of cells and are handy for presenting and comparing data in a simple, bite-sized way. In the example below, we’ve used sparklines to plot currency exchange rates over a 30-day period.
Sharing forms on Google+
Sharing the forms you create in Google Docs with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Today we added a
Google+ share
to the form editor so that you can share your forms directly with your circles with just a couple clicks.
And there’s more…
On top of today’s new features, here are some changes from January that you may have missed:
Adding images to your docs from a high quality stock photo gallery. Simply go to
Insert > Image
, select
Stock photos
, and then search for the images that you want.
A more streamlined format for document discussion notifications that batches multiple discussions into a single email.
Quickly opening and selecting items from specific menus with keyboard accelerators. For example, when using Google Chrome,
Ctrl+Option+E
on a Mac and
Alt+E
on Windows or Linux will open the
Edit
menu.
Copying and pasting via the context (right click) menu in documents when you have the
Chrome App
installed.
Easily adding Google drawings or Google Groups discussions to a Google Site from the
Insert
menu.
Progress bars while uploading files to Google Sites.
Searching for text inside of PDFs in your documents list using
Optical Character Recognition
.
If you’d like to learn more about what we’ve been up to in January, I’ll be doing a
Hangout On Air
later this week this to talk about these changes and listen to your feedback. Stop by our Community Manager
Teresa’s Google+ page
on
Thursday, February 9 at 12 p.m. EST
to tune in.
Posted by: Jeff Harris, Product Manager
Improved Accessibility in Google Docs and Sites
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Today we
announced
some of the updates we’ve released recently to make Google’s applications more accessible to the blind community. For Google Docs and Sites, we’re pleased to announce new keyboard shortcuts and better screen reader support for our blind users.
Screen reader support in Google Docs and Sites
To help blind users read, edit and navigate content, Google Docs (including documents list, documents and spreadsheets) and Sites now support two
screen readers
:
JAWS
and
ChromeVox
. Here are a few examples of how screen readers work in Google Docs and Sites:
In
documents
, you’ll hear feedback when you format text or insert tables, lists or comments in your document.
In
spreadsheets
, you’ll hear the cell’s location, contents and comments when moving between cells.
In both
documents and spreadsheets
, you’ll hear feedback as you navigate to areas outside the main content area, such as the menu bar, chat pane and dialog boxes.
In your
documents list
, you’ll hear feedback when you upload or download a file, organize collections or move between files in your documents list.
In
Sites
, you’ll hear feedback as you navigate and manage your sites, create and edit pages, and navigate through menus and dialog boxes.
For a complete list of screen reader-supported features and instructions for how to use them, visit the
Docs
and
Sites
help centers.
New keyboard shortcuts
We’ve also added new keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to use Google Docs and Sites. In your documents list, for example, you can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the files in the list, and you can open the selected document by hitting Enter. For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts, please refer to the help center articles for
spreadsheets
,
documents
,
documents list
and
Sites
.
With these new accessibility features, we hope to make it easier for everyone to use Google Docs and Sites. Please use
this form
to share your feedback directly with the accessibility team so we can continue to improve our products.
Posted by: Jeff Harris, Product Manager
Comment-only access in Google documents
Monday, September 12, 2011
In the past several months, we’ve
added
new discussion and commenting features to improve collaboration in Google documents. As an engineer, I often create docs with design concepts and send them to my team to review and provide feedback, and we use the commenting features to facilitate these discussions. Sometimes, I want to let team members view and make comments without allowing them to directly edit my document.
Over the next several days, we're releasing a new sharing option so that you can let people view and add comments to your documents without giving them edit access. To give comment-only access to your document, click on the
Share
button. From there, add in the contact you’d like to share your document with, and select
Can comment
.
You can also choose to give comment-only access to anyone with the link or anyone on the web by changing the sharing settings within the document. To do this, click
Change
in the sharing settings window and change visibility options to
Public on the web
or
Anyone with the link
, then change the access options to
Can comment
.
Similarly, if you’re using a Google Apps account, click
Change
in the sharing settings and select either “People at [your domain] who have the link can access” or “People at [your domain] can find and access.” Then change access option to
Can comment
.
Users that have comment-only access can view your document and add comments throughout -- without being able to change the content of the document directly.
We hope this latest feature in discussions helps you get the feedback you need while providing you with more control over the content in your docs. So comment away and tell us what you think -- below or in the
forum
.
Posted by: Sarah Wu, Software Engineer
This week in Docs: Page numbers in documents and one click to Google Cloud Print
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
This week in Docs, we’re announcing page numbers and page count in documents, plus one click to Google Cloud Print -- a couple features that we hope will save you time and energy.
Page numbers and page count in documents
Today we’re making it possible to add page numbers and page count to your documents. You can use the
Insert > Page number
option to add page numbers to the header or footer of your documents.
We’ve also added the option to insert page count, which displays the total number of pages in your document. You can combine the page number and the page count to create more advanced headers and footers. For example, to create the “Page 3 of 15” header below, take the following steps:
Go to
Insert > Header
.
Click the right align icon in the toolbar to move the cursor to the upper right corner.
Type the word “Page”.
Go to
Insert > Page number > Top of page
to add page numbers to the headers of your document.
Type the word “of”.
Go to
Insert > Page count
to add the total number of pages to the headers of your document.
Print with Google Cloud Print in just one click
Earlier this year, we announced
Google Cloud Print for mobile documents
. Google Cloud Print is a service in Beta that allows printing from any app on any device, OS or browser without the need to install any software.
We’re making it easier to print on the go directly from your mobile documents list in Google Docs. Simply select a document from the documents list and click on
Actions > Print
from the bottom toolbar. Currently, you can use Cloud Print in Google documents and spreadsheets.
To get started, you’ll need to
connect your printer
to Google Cloud Print. To learn more, check out the
new site
.
We hope you’ll take advantage of these latest features. Stay tuned for the next This Week in Docs.
Posted by: Chris Graves, Software Engineer Intern
Give your templates a refresh in the new document editor
Friday, August 5, 2011
We continue to add new features like
pagination
and
discussions
to the
new document editor
, and we want to make sure you always have access to all of the latest functionality -- whether you’re creating a new doc from scratch or using a template from the gallery. As part of this effort, we’re removing Google Docs templates created in the old document editor from the Google Docs
template gallery
.
Starting on
September 30th
, old style templates will remain accessible to their owners and to anyone who the template has been shared with, but they will no longer be visible in the public gallery. This will only apply to the public Google Docs template gallery; templates created in Google Apps domains will not be affected by this change.
You can ensure your templates remain in the gallery by converting them to the new document editor. Just follow these simple steps:
Open the document from your documents list
Click the
Preview
link at the top of the document to see what it looks like in the new editor
From inside the preview window, click the
Update this document
link
When old style templates are removed from the gallery on September 30th, the template owners will still be able to restore the templates to the gallery by upgrading them to the new editor.
By making this change, we hope to bring the best possible experience to more documents.
Posted by: Jeff Harris, Product Manager
This week in Docs: Copying drawings and better right-to-left table support
Monday, August 1, 2011
This week in Docs, we have a couple of new features that we hope make your life easier (and more visual). Read on.
Copying and pasting drawings across docs
Starting today, we’re adding support for the
web clipboard
to the embedded drawing editor so that you can work with drawings within documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This means that you can now copy shapes from one document and paste them into existing drawings in another doc. You can also use the web clipboard to move a drawing from a document into the standalone drawing editor.
To try this out, open a new document and go to
Insert > Drawing
to create a drawing in the embedded drawing editor. Click the web clipboard icon and
Copy shapes to web clipboard
.
Open another doc that you want to paste the drawing into. Click the web clipboard icon and hover to preview the available items -- then, click to paste when you’ve located the drawing you’d like to use.
Better support for right-to-left tables
We’ve also made an improvement to tables that will be useful for Hebrew and Arabic users. If you’ve enabled right-to-left controls from your
docs list settings
, you’ll now have an option to create tables that are visually right-to-left. This means that the first cell in the table will be in the upper right and that tabbing through the table will move you to the left and down. You can modify a table’s directionality from the table properties dialog.
We hope you enjoy these new features. As always, let us know what you think in the forums and stay tuned for more updates in the next
This week in Docs
blog post.
Posted by: Aharon Lanin, Software Engineer
This week in Docs and Sites: Ignore All, Ubuntu, and Site soft delete
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
We’re releasing a small batch of features this week: In Google documents, we added an
Ignore all
option to hide all spelling suggestions for a specific word, and a new web font, Ubuntu. We’ve also made it easier to manage your deleted sites in Google Sites.
Ignore All
In documents, we already give you the option to add words to your dictionary so we won’t show spelling suggestions for them in the future. That feature is convenient if you’re using a surname that will be reused in many documents. But sometimes there’s a non-dictionary word that’s only used in one doc, which might make you hesitant to add that word to your dictionary for all docs.
Ignore All
lets you hide the spelling suggestions for a specific word, but only affects the doc that you currently have opened.
Ubuntu
We’re also adding a new font to Google documents: Ubuntu. Earlier this year, we made Ubuntu available in the
Google Font API
, and it quickly rose to become one of our most popular fonts. The font was commissioned by
Canonical Ltd
and designed by
Dalton Maag
as part of the Ubuntu operating system open source project.
Ubuntu has a simple, modern style that’s both recognizable and legible. It’s designed to look great in many sizes, and we hope you’ll find it useful in anything from document text to large poster headlines to small image captions.
You can learn more about Ubuntu and see how to use the font by visiting the
Google Font Directory
.
Soft delete your sites
We’ve received a lot of feedback that it was sometimes difficult to restore a deleted site, since you needed to remember a deleted site’s URL. Starting today, you will be able to view any sites you’ve deleted in the Deleted sites section of My Sites rather than needing to remember their URLs. In this section, you can also choose to restore your site or delete it permanently before 30 days have passed. Note that as before, after the 30-day grace period, deleted sites will be permanently deleted.
Let us know what you think of these updates. If you have any ideas for new features, submit them to our
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page, open until June 16.
Posted by: Kara Levy, Software Engineer
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