Google Docs Package
Oct 2nd, 2007 by Dan Standeven
I didn’t realize Google was doing this until i read a post at MyTechOpinion.com called Google’s New Presentation Technology for Real Estate by NikNik (She has a cool First Name Last Name combo, If she ends up reading this, she’ll know what I’m talking about) which has Google developing a new presentation type software for FREE at google docs & Spreadsheets.
So I thought i would take a chance and give this a try. I used the spreadsheet application that is offered by Google to put together some pretty data intensive spreadsheets, having thousands and thousands of rows. The Google spreadsheet app handled this with no trouble at all, quite impressive I thought considering this in an online application. If you are a Microsoft Excel user then using this software will be an easy transition, basically if you put both of these applications beside each other, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell them apart (hmmmm). The Google app brings a lot of functions and options to make this application a fully functional spreadsheet. The only thing I didn’t like was when I had created multiple sheets in my workbook, I wasn’t easily able to scroll from sheet 1 to sheet 20. This scrolling feature by Google was way way too slow.
In all honesty this is a great tool for anyone who needs to provide presentations or have access to their work online. For Real Estate agents it’s a great tool because, you can write up your documents, number crunch with a spreadsheet and create a presentation all in one spot. The cool thing is once your done, and you wish to show it to your clients, you can bring it all up in one spot from any computer on the Internet and present it.
This will also save time and money meaning, no more expensive printing costs and stationary costs. Why not create the presentation online post it to your website, give your client a user name and password and allow them to access it anytime they want. They then can decide if they want to print it, look at it, or save it on their computer.
Google once again provides a great free tool, that can be used free by anyone who has a Google account.
Spreadsheet, Google, Excel, Software
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I’ve heard about these Apps but have never used them. Since I’m a spreadsheet maniac I’m going to have to give it a try. Hopefully I can save some money by not buying MS Office every 3 years!
The Apps are pretty good, I played around with the Document and Spreadsheet mostly. For a product that doesn’t cost you hundreds of dollars it does do the trick. The great thing is you can export your documents when your done to 5-6 different types of formats so you’re not limited to the online application.
I do have a pretty cool name…but then again so do you Mr. Standeven. Anyhow, I’m glad you found Google Docs useful…what’s not to love….the price is right and ease of use is always a plus. Thanks for sharing your experience.