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While Google’s online office suite might not have all the features of Microsoft Office, one area where Google’s word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, and IM client excel is in letting you easily collaborate with other users. Want to share a Word document or spreadsheet with other users, just click the share button.
But that only works if the people you want to share with have already registered for Google Apps accounts. Now Google has launched a new version of Google Apps that makes it a whole lot easier to get a group of people registered quickly.
Google Apps Team Edition packs all the basic features like Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. But when you sign up for Team Edition, Google Apps will automatically recognize your company or school email address and locate other users affiliated with the same organization and add them to your contact list. Now when you want to share a document or send a message, you should have a list of all the other people who have registered for Google Apps with email addresses from the same domain.
For example, if your email address is address@domain.com, you can share documents with any other uses who has a @domain.com address. Alternately, you can select to share your documents with everyone that has a @domain.com address. While Google Apps Team Edition doesn’t offer any features that you can’t get with a basic account, the move should help Google grow its user base by making signup much easier. That said, we’ve tried to sign up several times this day, and we keep getting a server error message from Google. Hopefully that problem will be fixed soon.
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It’s already possible to make and distribute surveys through Google Docs, but the process can be a pain. As survey-takers log-in to edit the spreadsheet, sometimes they don’t follow directions or they edit parts they’re not supposed to edit. What’s worse is that users have to register with Google in order to use Google Docs, but this new Google Docs feature, called “forms,” makes survey distribution and information collection incredibly simple.
Forms are created in Google Docs spreadsheets via the share tab, where you’ll need to make sure you choose “to fill out a form.” Multiple-choice or free-response questions can be added as you wish. Then add some email addresses, and wait for the responses to arrive. Survey-takers don’t need to sign-in and can access the survey through an email message or a link. The responses will be added to your spreadsheet automatically.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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 Continuing their unmatched success in offering products with gargantuan, hard-to-remember names, Microsoft this day announced that they’ll sell Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager as a stand-alone offering. This is good news for people who want Outlook but don’t need Microsoft’s other office solutions.
Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager combines all the functionality of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with the extended benefits of a contact management application. This combined application also shares the same customer database as Office Accounting 2008, so that changes to customer information in one application are automatically reflected in the other.
If any of you survived that last paragraph, we offer you a picture to help your understanding: think of the various, multi-colored spacecraft coming together to form the behemoth Voltron. Now you’ve got the right idea.
Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager will be offered at a stand-alone price of $149.95.
[Via Softpedia]
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