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Covert Word Documents To PDF Using Google Docs

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These days, most of the users including organizations prefer to save or export their office documents created using various Office suites like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice etc. as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. This is because when you save it in other typical document formats, some of the elements in the document may not render properly when you open it with Office suit other than the one using which it is made, so it may not look the same on all the computers running on different platforms or using different types of office suits. There are plenty of tools available both online and offline to export the documents into PDF format. In fact, we had earlier written about how to covert Word and Excel documents into PDF using Microsoft Office 2010.

Now let’s me introduce you a not-so-known feature in Google Docs that lets you save any document as PDF.

1. Upload your Word document to Google Docs.

2. Open the document and you click on the “File” in the menu bar.

3. Under File > Download as ; choose PDF to save the document as PDF and download to your computer.

Google docs download as PDF option

Microsoft & Facebook Launch Document Sharing Service Docs.com

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With the advent of internet, day-to-day life is becoming much simpler.Would you have ever thought of creating office documents  without even installing a Office software like Microsoft Office or Open Office.Thanks to the wide number of document sharing websites like Scribd, SlideShare and the most popular Google Docs which lets you create documents on the cloud and share them with the world.

Now a similar alternative service is coming up from Microsoft in association with Facebook.

microsoft docs homepage

Microsoft’s new document sharing website docs.com lets you create Office documents and share them with your friends in Facebook, courtesy Office Web Apps and the Facebook Connect.

add document in Microsoft docs

You can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentation & Excel spreadsheets etc., to Docs.com similar to the way do it in other online documents sharing websites like Google Docs.But Facebook integration helps you to share these documents with your friends.You can also grant viewing and editing rights to your selected Facebook friends so that they can edit your documents online, thus making collaboration easier (such collaboration also exist in Google Docs, if you can remember).

Your friends can discover the documents that you shared in the updates just like they discover your photos or videos that you have shared. You can also discuss with your friends about a doc via comments just like you would do with a status update or photo.

You just need a Facebook account to start with.You don’t need to install Office 2010 or you don’t need a Windows Live ID either.Doc.com service is still in private beta though you can use your Facebook account to get notification as soon it becomes publicly available.

docs for facebook beta

Videos:

Getting Started For Docs

Docs for Facebook – Overview

Google Docs Launches “Server Clipboard” Feature

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Google is testing a new feature in Google Docs called “Server Clipboard”.

As of now, it’s not available in every account, or it may be the case even though if it’s active for your account you may not actually spotted the small “clipboard’ symbol just after the “undo” and “redo” buttons.

 

 

 

Server clipboard button in Google Docs

What Does This Mean?

It’s like a normal clipboard that we use in our PCs but the difference here is that, the contented copied in this clipboard gets stored on Google servers (Basically it’s a server-side clipboard based a.k.a “cloud clipboard” that lets you copy and paste items from one PC to another).That means this data would be available to all the Google applications like Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Docs.

It also also you to copy multiple items from Google docs.You can actually see all the items you have copied in “Server Clipboard” from its menu.Server clipboard is offering both HTML and plain text formats for copy/paste.Also the text that you have copied in the Server Clipboard will exist on Google’s servers for 30 days.You use “Clear all items” to delete all items present currently in the Server Clipboard.

Server Clipboard Copied Items2

There’s also a separate Google help article has been made available for “Server Clipboard”.

While you can refer to the above help article for more about this feature, we are here quoting the procedure to use the Server clipboard in Google docs from that article.

STEPS:

  1. Select what you’d like to copy. Click the Server clipboard menu that appears in the toolbar of your document.server_clipboard logo
  2. Click Copy selection to server clipboard.
  3. In the destination document, click the server clipboard menu; you’ll see the selection that you previously copied. If you copied multiple things, you’ll see a list of the items you’ve recently copied.(Refer to the screen shot in this post)
  4. Place the cursor where you want to paste the content. (Currently you can paste it in Google Docs only, but we can expect Gmail support soon)
  5. Click the Server clipboard menu.
  6. Select what you want to paste. Depending on your selection, you’ll see different formats that you can choose from to paste what you’ve copied (for example, HTML or plain text).
  7. Select a format.

Login to your Docs account and verify whether you’ve got this feature.