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Sharing documents with others via the web using Google Docs

By sporte on November 15, 2008.

Poor PZ! Stranded without a working laptop in a strange town! This is the kind of situation that gives me nightmares, so I like to upload presentation materials to the web just in case.

Lately, I've been looking at different methods for doing this to see which ones l like the best.

A few days ago, I tested this with Scribd.

Today, I'm going to see what we can do with Google Docs.

TomJoe said that he started using Scribd because he couldn't share things with Google.

I use Google docs quite a bit, but I haven't tried to share any documents with more than a few people, so I took at look.

 

You can have your pdfs but you can't share them with everyone

I uploaded a pdf document to Google Docs, then clicked the How to share link.

Too bad.  Pdfs are like a child's birthday party, you must e-mail invitations to everyone.

Big waste of time.

So using Google docs isn't very helpful if you have a pdf that you'd like to share. But what about other kinds of documents?

 

Things you can share

It is easy to share Forms, Power Point presentations, and Spread Sheets. With text documents, you can publish them as web pages. All you need to do is click the Share tab in the upper right corner, and then choose Publish/Embed from the list.i-a755e8aee42db132489b3fc640550b8f-share_doc.jpg

Here's a Power Point document that I chose to share and embed:

It works!

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