Google Docs search settings

Welcome to the new and improved Google Docs search settings. For those of us extensively using Google Docs, searching for a document can be a tricky thing.

When you go to the Google Docs website, the documents are ordered in the descending date order. That may not be very helpful, but lucky for us Google also has the best search engine so they borrowed a few features from there.

Here are the current options you can search documents on in Google Docs:

• has the words
• named ( of course....)
• type ( this one's nice, you can search by document type OR folder
• search ( all items, owned by me, starred, hidden, etc)
• search folders
• sharing
• shared with ( this one's also useful, as most use Google Docs for it's sharing capabilities)
• owner is ( email address of owner)
• date

A cool thing that you can also do is save the search , by giving it a name, for latter use.

What will the next GDocsOpen version bring?

We've been working hard on the next GDocsOpen version.
Full details will be given later, but here's a quick preview - it will open any type of Google supported document and greatly improve the synchronize with local computer capability.
So if now you can only open DOC and XLS, in the next version - to be released very soon - you will be able to open any type of document with google docs and save it on your local computer . You will be IN the cloud AND on your local PC for offline use.

How to always have the newest Google Docs version working for you

Google adds features all the time to it's Google Docs application suite. The newest and hottest features are usually not available from the beginning to all it's users. They do this because new releases may still have a few development bugs in them, even though the general functionality is there.

Experienced users or users who are always in search for something more from Google Docs may choose to take the risk of facing a few bugs of the new version for the benefit of enhancing the usability of Google Docs. They can do this by going to their Google Docs settings , select the Editing tab , and checking the box next to “New version of Google documents”.

How to publish from Google Docs to your WordPress blog

If you have a WordPress blog, you may want to read this nice post:
How to publish from Google Docs to your WordPress blog
It is a nice use of Google Docs to integrate your blog with it.