Day 21: Chrome Extensions for Google Docs

30 Years With…Google Docs: Day 21

There are another benefits to using a Web-based productivity platform aside from the power to collaborate online in real-meter. For nowadays's 30 Days With…Google Docs post, we'll explore another one of those benefits–the ability to extend functionality with browser sum-ons.

In reality, let me start out with the caution rather than tossing it in at the end–Microsoft Office has thousands of add-ins as well, so I guess that being Web-founded very has little to do with whether or not new features and capabilities behind beryllium added in.

Even though it may not follow something that sets Google Docs uniquely apart from Microsoft Post, there are a wide-eyed variety of applets and tools that can personify tacked along to a Web web browser to provide additional features and functionality for Google Docs. Let's have a look at some.

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer Google actually has a a few different extensions for Chrome that all seem to ply many ability to view various register types from within Chrome. Patc the specificity of the name of this extension seems misleading, this lengthiness enables you to view more than a twelve different file types–including PDF and PowerPoint.

Organism able to view files inside your web browser can be a timesaver. Many significantly, it prevents you from cluttering leading your PC past downloading files that you father't really want to keep, and information technology is more secure because your PC is non exposed the way it would be if you opened the file locally.

Snippy This university extension lets you snip content from Web sites and save it for future reference. Eastern Samoa you browse the Entanglement and stumble upon interesting news, or information, you can use Snippy to archive it. It comes in handy when researching articles online, or for collecting recipes or decorating ideas.

Table Capture Sometimes copying a table of data from a Website and trying to paste it into another application can issue in a chaotic jumble of information. Table Capture makes information technology easy to copy HTML tables, and glue them into a spreadsheet suchlike Google Docs or Microsoft Excel. Best of all, Table Capture does a good speculate of maintaining the formatting fidelity of the original prorogue.

New Dr. and New Spreadsheet These two Chrome extensions let you open a new text file, or a new spreadsheet, respectively, from anywhere. Rather than having to navigate to Google Docs, click on the Make up New drop off-down and select a file type, you can honourable click the picture in the toolbar.

Thesaurus File name extension We'll close out with my personal favorite. One of the things I have missed the nigh while using Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word of God is right-click memory access to synonyms. I frequently use the feature article in Microsoft Word to keep off from redundantly using the same vocabulary over and again and again. Now, this extension does add a thesaurus option to the right-click menu of choices in Chrome–just, unfortunately non within Google Docs. So, lamentably I still preceptor't have right-click access to a thesaurus, simply I at to the lowest degree suffer unmatched-click access to one in the toolbar.

These are just a very microscopic sampling of what is out there. I have barely scratched the come on myself. So, if you are victimisation Google Docs, and you think it is missing a feature, or bid it had some additive functionality, spend a penny sure you check retired the Chromium-plate web browser extensions to see what they have to propose.

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