1. Getting Started with Google Docs

When most people think of the programs they use to do their work—word processors, spreadsheet programs, and presentation software—they think of programs that live on their computers and store files there, too. If you want to share a report with a colleague, for example, you probably email the file. If you make a few tweaks in the meantime, you have to email it again. And if your colleague needs to make a change, he will have to email the document back to you to incorporate those changes. Before you know it, you’ve got half a dozen different versions of the file. Or maybe you want to take a spreadsheet on a business trip. If you forget to put it on a flash drive or otherwise transfer it to your laptop, you’re ...

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