Today Carl Hughes of IT Hound recommended Google Cloud Connect.
This wonderful piece of technology allows me to use Microsoft Word and Excel, but have them synchronised to Google Documents. This gives me the benefit of having access to my documents from any internet enabled application and being able to collaborate on them with others, but still having the powerful editing capabilities of Microsoft's Office Suite.
Its easy to set this up
1) simply download and install the Cloud Connect tool from here:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect
2) Open Word or Excel and login to your Google Apps/Docs account
3) You can then choose to synchronize any document you create, and it will appear in your Google Documents account.
However, in testing this, I could only get it to work in one direction, from Word up-to Google Docs. Subsequent edits in Google were lost.
This wonderful piece of technology allows me to use Microsoft Word and Excel, but have them synchronised to Google Documents. This gives me the benefit of having access to my documents from any internet enabled application and being able to collaborate on them with others, but still having the powerful editing capabilities of Microsoft's Office Suite.
Its easy to set this up
1) simply download and install the Cloud Connect tool from here:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect
2) Open Word or Excel and login to your Google Apps/Docs account
3) You can then choose to synchronize any document you create, and it will appear in your Google Documents account.
However, in testing this, I could only get it to work in one direction, from Word up-to Google Docs. Subsequent edits in Google were lost.
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