The following new features are now available in Google Docs:
Mobile editing: Log in to your Google Docs on a browser on a supported device, and select the document you want to edit. Then, when you’re viewing it, press the ‘Edit’ button to switch to the mobile editor. If you use an Android device with voice input, you can also use this to add text to your document.
Text replacements: We have added the ability to substitute text automatically and being able to manage the replacements.
LaTeX shortcuts in equations: LaTeX is a document markup language that’s often used by academics to quickly type out complex formulas. In Google Docs, when you’re inside an equation you can type '\sqrt' followed by a space or a parenthesis to automatically convert the text into a square root sign √. Other examples of useful shortcuts are '\frac' for a fraction and shorthands like '\epsilon' for Greek symbols. Full list of equation shortcuts here .
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
Mobile editing: US English
Others: All languages supported by Google Docs
How to access what's new:
Mobile editing: Over the next few days, we’re rolling this out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. We’ll be adding support for other languages soon.
Text replacements: You can right click on a misspelled word, go down to the ‘AutoCorrect’ option, and choose a way of automatically fixing this spelling mistake in the future.
For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/editing-your-google-docs-on-go.html
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/faster-typing-fewer-mistakes.html
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Five new themes have now been been added to Gmail:
Basic Black
Basic White
Android
Tree Tops
Marker
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail
How to access what's new:
In Gmail settings, select the ‘Themes’ tab to view and select the new themes.
Note: Themes are only available in Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+ or Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome. You won't see a 'Themes' tab in your Settings if you're not using the newer version of Gmail on the browsers listed above. Please note that Themes are not available if you're using Internet Explorer 6.0
For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/five-new-themes.html
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The simplified sharing experience in Google Docs has now been extended to Google Sites. As with Google Docs, Google Sites can now be set to various visibility options such as: private, anyone at your domain with the link, anyone at your domain can find and access, anyone with the link (no sign-in required) or public on the web.
The domain administrator can set the level of sharing for the domain, so not all sharing options may be allowed. The new visibility option is always available at the top of each site.
With this update, the new “Anyone with the link” setting makes your site available to anyone that knows the unique URL, but blocks search engines from indexing the site. And for those times that someone sends you a link to a site but you don’t have access, you can now request access to that site from the access denied page.
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:
When editing a site, select ‘More actions’ and then ‘Share site’ to see the new interface. You can also bring up the sharing dialog by clicking on the sharing visibility icon at the top of the site.
For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/sites
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Using “Upload any file”, users already have the ability to upload, store, and share any file up to 1 GB in size. Now you can upload new versions of the same file to your document list. Previously, each time you updated a file, you would have to upload the new version as a new file with a new URL, re-share it, and put in the correct folders again.
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:
Select the “Add or manage versions” option on any file, you can then upload new versions of a file, download previous versions, and delete older versions.
For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer;=50092
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-in-google-docs-and-google-sites.html
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Release 1.6.20 of Google Apps Directory Sync includes new fields for user profiles and shared contacts, plus separate display names for groups.
Additional Profile and Shared Contacts Attributes:
- New fields are available when synchronizing user profiles and shared contacts. Specify these new attributes in the directory sync utility in Release 1.6.20 using the Configuration Manager, in the LDAP User Profiles Attributes and LDAP Shared Contacts Attributes screen.
New attributes include:
- Assistant’s DN: An LDAP attribute containing the LDAP Distinguished Name of the user’s or contact’s assistant.
- Manager’s DN: An LDAP attribute containing the LDAP Distinguished Name of the user’s or contact’s direct manager.
- Assistant’s Phone Number: An LDAP attribute containing the phone number of the user’s or contact’s assistant.
- Work Address: A set of LDAP attributes containing structured elements of the user’s or contact’s primary work address. All these attributes are combined to form the primary work address.
- Notes: An LDAP attribute containing the notes associated with the User or Contact.
Additional Group Attribute:
- Groups Display Name Attribute
When setting up group synchronization rules, you can now specify an LDAP attribute that contains the display name of the group, which can be distinct from the group email address.
Specify a group display name in the directory sync utility in Release 1.6.20 using the Configuration Manager, in the Group Search Rules edit screen.
Editions included:
Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
US English
How to access what's new:
Download Page
For more information:
Release Notes
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Gmail offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a separate entry in the inbox. The inbox is still sorted in reverse chronological order.
Previously, this feature was only available to domains whose administrators has enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel. This is now available to all Google Apps domains.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail
How to access what's new:
In Gmail ‘Settings’, go to the new ‘Conversation View’ section and choose to have that view on or off and click ‘save changes’.
Note: The mobile web-based view of Gmail will still be threaded, as will the Gmail Mobile Client app. However, if you are using a Blackberry, Window Mobile, iPhone, or Android device, you can access Gmail unthreaded in the native mail clients of those devices using Google’s sync tools.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html
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You can now create, edit, and launch Google Apps Scripts from any Google Site. This allows you to automate business processes that involve multiple applications.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
How to access what's new:
When editing a site, click ‘More actions’, then ‘Manage site’ and ‘Apps Scripts’ to build a script.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/automating-business-processes-in-google.html
Google Apps Scripts Resources
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You can now drag images from your desktop and drop them directly into a document. You can use image drag and drop with the latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. We’ll enable it on other browsers, as soon as they support the feature.
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/2010/10/drag-and-drop-images-in-documents.html
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Priority Inbox (Beta) is a new view of your inbox that automatically helps you focus on your most important messages. Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”. Messages are automatically categorized as they arrive in your inbox.
Previously, this feature was only available to domains whose administrator had enabled the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel. This feature has now been released to all domains so that checkbox no longer controls this feature.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail
How to access what's new:
- Users can manually opt-in to this new feature by clicking on the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner.
- Users can return to the normal view at any time by clicking on “Inbox” or by disabling Priority Inbox in “Settings”.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=29809
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More Google Apps administrators can now segment their users into different organizations and control which Google services are enabled/disabled for each of those different sets of users.
- Allows creation of organizations in a tree-like hierarchy
- Manage membership of users into one organization
- Specify policies for which services are on/off by organization
Editions included:
Standard, Premier and Partner Edition
Languages included:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, Filipino/Tagalog, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
How to access what's new:
The Control Panel tab ‘Users and groups’ now becomes ‘Organization & users’. Click on this new tab to create a new organization.
To create organizational units:
1. In the organizational tree, highlight the organizational unit to which you want to add a child.
2. Click the ‘Add suborganization’ button..
3. Enter a name and description for the new organization.
4. Click the ‘Add organization’ button.
5. The new organizational unit appears as a child of the organizational unit you selected at step 1.
To enable/disable services for specific users:
1. Services that are disabled on the main dashboard will be disabled for all users.
2. Click the ‘Organizations & users’ tab.
3. Select the appropriate organization.
4. Click the ‘Services’ sub-tab.
5. Click ‘On/Off’ to change service settings or if it's a sub-organization, click 'Override this setting' or 'Use inherited' links to change settings.
Note: Standard and Partner Edition domains do not have the ability to create suborganizations.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-user-policy-management-for.html
Users and Organization: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic;=14578
Service settings: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer;=182442
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Keyboard shortcuts to common actions like create page and edit page for site collaborators have now been added to Google Sites.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
How to access what's new:
- In Google Sites, type Ctrl / (⌘ / on a Mac) to open the shortcut help.
- Full list of keyboard shortcuts .
For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/keyboard-shortcuts-in-google-sites.html
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Gmail now offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a separate entry in the inbox. The inbox is still sorted in reverse chronological order.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail
How to access what's new:
This feature is only available to domains whose administrator has enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel.
In Gmail ‘Settings’, go to the new ‘Conversation View’ section, select to have that view on or off and click ‘Save changes’.
Note: The mobile web-based view of Gmail will still be threaded, as will the Gmail Mobile Client app. However, if you are using a Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, or Android device, you can access Gmail unthreaded in the native mail clients of those devices using Google’s sync tools.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html
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A new revision history interface is now available in Google documents that makes it even easier to see document revisions when collaborating.
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:
- To see the new interface, go to ‘File’, then ‘See revision history’ when editing a document.
- Click on a time stamp in the right column to see what changes were made at a given time or use the arrow keys to quickly scan through many revisions.
- Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, making it easy to tell what has been added or deleted.
- Time stamps are also improved in the new interface.
- The interface also batches revisions into groups of changes to make it easier to understand how a document has changed over time. To see a finer-grained list of revisions, click ‘Show more detailed revisions'.
For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-tools-for-viewing-document.html
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New import options have been added to spreadsheets. When importing, you now can create a whole new spreadsheet, append to the current sheet, add a new sheet to your existing spreadsheet or even replace your entire spreadsheet with this new version.
There's also a new custom delimiters option where you can also specify what character to parse your data file with, giving you maximum flexibility when dealing with your data files.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Spreadsheets
How to access what's new:
- When editing a spreadsheet, click on ‘File’ then ‘Import’ to select your file and see the new import options.
For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/import-your-files-many-different-ways.html
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A new version of the Gmail app is now available in the Android Market. This means the app is no longer tied to Android version releases anymore. New features include:
- Important message actions will now stick to the top of the screen, one click away, no matter how long the email is.
- View previous message content more easily, just like in the desktop version of Gmail. Tap “Show quoted text” to reveal the previous message.
- Limited support for Priority Inbox. If you’ve enabled Priority Inbox via the desktop version of Gmail, you’ll see an “Important” label that shows all messages flagged as important. You can even add a shortcut to “Important” to your home screen.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
How to access what's new:
- The Gmail update requires Froyo (Android version 2.2), so it’s available if you have a Nexus One, HTC EVO, Motorola Droid 2 or Motorola Droid. (Not sure if your device is running Android version 2.2? Check here .)
- Get the update from Android Market.
For more information:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/updated-gmail-app-in-android-market.html
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In Gmail you now have the option to only send your vacation response to other people in your domain and not to external recipients.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail
How to access what's new:
In Gmail, go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘General’ -> ‘Vacation responder’ section, and select the new option to only send a response to people in your domain.
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A new event page in Google Calendar has been introduced. Among the changes such as simplified layout and making the style more consistent with other Google apps, some new functionality has also been added:
- New repeating event editor
- New tool to help you find a time for your event and work better across time zones
- Ability to set your default working hours for events
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar
How to access what's new:
Repeating event editor: You can now see a summary of your recurring event on the main event page; if you want to edit it, you can use a window that opens when you select the "Repeats" checkbox.
Find a time feature: If you have access to view other people’s calendars, you can click this tab to see a preview of their schedules and hover over their events to see what conflicts they might have.
Working hours: In ‘Calendar Settings’, you can now specify what your available working hours are. Enabling this feature will show a warning to other people when they invite you to an event outside the hours that you’ve set.
Note: In order to see the new repeating event editor and find a time feature, your domain administrator must enable the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel under ‘Domain settings’. This new functionality is currently not available for domains that have enabled our Google Calendar Connectors API which shows data from other services. We hope to make this available to those domains in the near future.
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/work-better-across-time-zones-with.html
Find a time: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=178219
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Voice and video chat for Linux is now available. This supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.
Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government
How to access what's new:
Download the plugin
For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?answer=159499
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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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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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