Several years ago my other half and I rented out our home to live frugally from the income, spending more than twelve months gallivanting around several continents, with our backpacks. In Munich an IT savvy friend suggested that we sign up to a free on-line German product for posting our documents and selectively sharing them with others. I have no idea what the product was called and it had a convoluted URL which looked very foreign. However, it was wonderful... We scanned important documents (e.g. wills, passports) and allocated access privileges to others in the southern hemisphere, in case something untoward occurred to us.
When we arrived home more than a year an a half later, we continued to use the product for our documents; and we continued to permit a chosen few to access certain documents there. Use of the product eventually fell to the wayside. Google docs is exactly the same concept.
As requested for Thing 19, I created a document and a spreadsheet. Without difficulty I was able download the documents in differing formats, e.g. RTF and PDF. I was also readily able to export the documents.
Positive attributes of Google Docs include the Revision history information. I love this in the context of preparing comprehensive workplace documents, or teaching notes; and wanting a record of all the revisions, not just the most recent. I also really appreciate the facility which permits the uploading of documents like .ppt presentations up to 10MB in size! When wanting to share bulky documents by conventional e-mail, unfortunately internal and external mail servers sometimes delay or block the distribution. By adopting Google Docs as an information sharing tool, everyone can gain access to the document in question, irrespective of its size.
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