Google Updates Docs, Sheets and Slides With New Collaboration Features (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: G Suite, Google's set of online productivity tools, is getting a major update today that adds a number of new features to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Most of these updates focus around collaboration, but the service is also getting support for Google Cloud Search and the company is adding new templates and add-ons from partners like LegalZoom, DocuSign, LucidChart and others. [...] Google Docs Sheets and Slides now lets you track changes by saving multiple versions of a document with different names. The new integration with Google Cloud Search in Docs and Slides means that G Suite Business and Enterprise users will now be able to quickly find the right information from their internal documents without having to leave the editor.

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multiple versions of a document different names

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> lets you track changes by saving multiple versions of a document with different names

I thought "multiple versions of a document with different names" was one of the problems SOLVED by Google Docs. (No more trying to reconcile 4 people's personally edited documents into one master document.)

What, exactly, are they introducing and why?

Re:multiple versions of a document different names

[Anonymous Coward]

When you open a google doc, sheet or slide you can review the document history - they're allowing you to apply a label to the history now. Saves you making a document revision page for example.

Re:multiple versions of a document different names

[PCM2]

What, exactly, are they introducing and why?

You know how when you're playing a videogame, sometimes when you're worried that the next part might get tricky, you save your game so that you don't have to start over from the beginning when everything gets screwed up? They're doing that for documents. And you can give the "save points" names, so you know which one's which.

Re:multiple versions of a document different names

[Waffle Iron]

I've been saving multiple versions of documents under different names ever since the days of CP/M:

MEMO1.TXT
MEMO2.TXT
MEMO3.TXT
...

Re:They could just bring back Wave

[jfdavis668]

I liked Wave. Unfortunately, no one else did. Collaboration tools aren't very useful by yourself.

Re:Will web apps ever catch up with desktop apps?

[bluefoxlucid]

LibreOffice hemmorages on simple spread sheets and keeps locking up for several seconds to do auto-save. Google Sheets can't handle sheet-specific named ranges (it can, but won't create them, then dies when you try to mess with named ranges if there are sheet-specific named ranges).

I seriously am considering buying Excel.

Re:Any chance of charts in mobile apps?

[bluefoxlucid]

I'm still waiting for the editor to allow creation of new styles in Google Docs.

Regression

[fermion]

The lack of scatter plot options basically has made it useless to me. I generally like the applications, but google has stopped regular updates.

Re:Will web apps ever catch up with desktop apps?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the real value add of gDocs is the ease of sharing.

Make a document, click share, add names of people you want to have edit privileges, then say anyone in the org can view. Bam, instant controlled documentation.