URL for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms: https://www.google.com/docs/about/
Key Features
- Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are just like Microsoft Office Documents, Excel and PowerPoint respectively.
- You can create files, format them by changing the font style, font size, adding bullets or numbers. Add new columns, rows or apply a formula to the row in sheets. Add animations and transitions to slides.
- You can insert images, videos or special characters.
- You can add comments to the files, sheets or slides.
Special Features
- Google docs are auto-saved. You need not hit the save button.
- Share documents with others. Multiple people can edit documents simultaneously. Editors editing the documents are identified at the top of the screen with different colors. Additionally, editors are identified with a cursor with the corresponding color.
- You can type with your voice. Editors have to pronounce punctuation marks such as a period, comma, exclamation point, question mark, new line and new paragraph in order to insert a desired punctuation in the text.
- All modified versions of a document are retrievable. Click on File → Version History → See Version History.
- You can type in any language with additional changes to settings. Click on File → Language. Select the language you wish to type in.
- You can translate a doc into any language. Click on Tools → Translate Document.
- Whenever an editor adds a comment to a file, collaborators receive a notification. You can turn them off.
- Whenever any changes are made in Google Sheets, collaborators receive a notification. You can turn them off or customize them as per your need.
