Horizontal navigation, global footer and more in Google Sites

Aug 19

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The following new features have been added to Google Sites:
- You can now add horizontal navigation to your site’s layout in one of three different options: boxes, tabs, and links.
- You can now set your site to have a global footer that displays across all pages on the site.
- We’ve added quick links to Google Docs embedded to Google Sites making it easier for collaborators to open embedded documents.
- We also added a “Deleted items” section to site management making it easier to get to deleted pages and attachments.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
Horizontal navigation: You can enable this in More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout. You can also set the background, link and hover properties via More actions > Manage site >Colors and Fonts.
Global footer: Set this footer via More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout.
Deleted items: You can access this new option at More actions > Manage site > Deleted items. In this new section, you can choose to recover deleted items or permanently delete them manually. Deleted items can be recovered up to 30 days after they have been deleted, after which they will be permanently removed.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/horizontal-navigation-site-footer-and.html
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Use Linux? Now you can video chat too

Aug 19

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Posted by Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer

If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top video chat request), then we have good news for you: it’s now available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

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Check spelling in Google Spreadsheets

Aug 18

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You can now check your spelling in spreadsheets. The tool will go through all the cells on your sheet, highlighting each cell which has a misspelled word in red. Words that might be misspelled in each cell are underlined in red and can be changed by clicking on them and selecting the right spelling.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
When editing a spreadsheet, select ‘Tools’, then ‘Check spelling’ to check your sheet. Click ‘Next’ to go to the next cell and once all the cells on one sheet have been checked, you can continue to the next sheet.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/check-spelling-in-google-spreadsheets.html
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58193

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New in Labs: Find docs and sites quickly with Apps Search

Aug 18

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Posted by Bram Moolenaar, Software Engineer

Where is that presentation? Was it attached to an email? Or in Google Docs? If you’re not sure, you may end up searching several places with the same query in order to find it. With the new “Apps Search” lab, we just made that all a bit simpler.

Once you enable it from the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, the “Search Mail” button in Gmail will say “Search Mail and Docs” instead, and your search results will include matching documents and sites in addition to email messages.


We also added “Did you mean?” style suggestions, for those of us who make mistakes (who doesn’t?):


You may notice that mail results show up just as fast as before while non-mail results may take a tiny bit longer. That way, if you’re just looking for an email, having this lab enabled won’t slow you down.

The paint is still wet and we plan to make further improvements the coming months, so be sure to let us know if you have any feedback.

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Auto-linking, preferences and more page sizes now in Google Docs

Aug 17

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Auto-linking: Now when you type something that documents recognizes as a link, it will become a link automatically. If you don’t want your text to be a link, you can undo the auto-linking by pressing Ctrl Z (Cmd Z on a Mac).

Preferences: If you don’t want automatic link detection, you can disable it completely by opening the ‘Preferences’ dialog from the ‘Tools’ menu. You can also permanently disable curly quotes (smart-quotes) in this dialog.

Page sizes: More page sizes have been added to documents. Find the new options in ‘File’, then ‘Page Setup’ when editing a document.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/auto-linking-preferences-and-page-sizes.html

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Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010

Aug 17

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Posted by Alice Brown, Google Calendar Team

Making sure that your calendar is available to you whenever and wherever you need it is important. That's why Google Calendar works with a number of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones. Google Calendar Sync for Outlook is also available, but one thing was missing — until now.

Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010 — our top feature request. Outlook 2010 comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and currently only 32-bit is supported. To start syncing your calendar with Outlook 2010, download Google Calendar Sync version 0.9.3.6. Once you install it, a Settings window will appear. Enter your account’s email address and password, choose your sync option and sync frequency, and you’re done! (Note: If you’re already using Google Calendar Sync, you’ll still need to download and install this new version in order to be able to sync with Outlook 2010. If you need help, take a look at our getting started guide.)

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Galactic Inbox: An HTML5 game inspired by Gmail

Aug 13

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Posted by Paul Truong, Creative Technologist

Webmail has come a long way in the past few years but it’s all too easy to take for granted practically unlimited inbox capacities and responsive interfaces backed by the power of search. While I’m not on the Gmail team, I felt a little celebration of how far we’ve come was in order, so I wrote a little HTML5 game, in part as a "thank you" to the Gmail team for their ongoing work to improve the webmail galaxy. If you’re into games, or just like the idea of flying m-velopes that shoot bad guys, give it a try (make sure you’re using a modern browser that supports HTML5 first).



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Email migration now even easier with new version of Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange

Aug 11

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A new version of Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange has been released with the following new features:

IMAP support – Administrators can use the tool’s new IMAP capabilities to migrate email from systems like Novell Groupwise to Google Apps, or even migrate data between Google Apps accounts.

PST support – Administrators can migrate PST files on behalf of users in their domain once they have aggregated users' data files in one location.

Better support for hosted Exchange – Administrators can now migrate data from hosted Exchange by running the migration tool on local servers, without requiring the Exchange hosting partner to run any special software on their end.

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download Page

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/going-google-made-easier-with-better.html
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Convert files in the documents list to a Google Docs format

Aug 11

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You can now convert files already uploaded to your documents list into a Google Docs format. Previously, this option was only available on upload. This includes converting image and PDF files to text using our recently added Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

The full list of files that can be converted include:
For spreadsheets: .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv, .tsv, .txt, .tsb
For documents: .doc, .docx, .html, plain text (.txt), .rtf
For presentations: .ppt, .pps
For OCR: .jpg, .gif, .png, .pd

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- While in the document list, right-click on the file you want to convert and select ‘Make a Google Docs copy’. This doesn’t modify your original file and adds a new Google Docs copy to your docs list.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/convert-files-in-documents-list-to.html

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New curve tool in Google Drawings

Aug 11

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A new curves tool has been released in Drawings. The new curves can be left open or closed, and can be filled or unfilled. You can also adjust points on the curve after drawing it.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- When editing a drawing, click the new curves tool icon in the toolbar to draw a new curve. The new tool is to the right of the ‘Arrow’ tool.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-curve-tool-for-drawings.html
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=28131

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