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• How to back up your Google Docs (in case Drive goes down again)

  Google has a built-in tool that allows you to edit your Drive files offline, in case the service ever goes down. Here's how ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here’s how you make your Google Docs secure

  Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other people, I use it to write, edit, collaborate, and to archive my documents. There’s no arguing on the convenience that Google Docs provides, whether you’re ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google Docs now shows word count as you type (thank god)

  I dig Google Docs a lot. There's one thing that I passionately despise about it though – its crappy word count feature. ...

  • Mix

• You can now directly edit Microsoft Office files with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

  It's a great week for productivity. First, Slack announced that it'll let you view documents without leaving the app, and then Dropbox enabled editing Google Docs within its own cloud storage app. Now, Google has announced that you can edit Microsoft Office files directly in Google's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• You can now create and edit Google Docs right within Dropbox

  Google Drive and Dropbox might be competitors, but that doesn't mean the two companies can't get along. Case in point: they are announcing tighter integration between their respective services, allowing to Dropbox Business users to create Google Docs, Sheets, Slides documents right ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Teens are using Google Docs as a sneaky messaging app right under their parents' (and teachers') noses

  Google’s cloud-based tools provide a lot of bang for the buck. Apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides are a collaborative dreamscape, the types of applications that allow kids to split into groups and iterate a project until completion. They also make a good instant messaging platform, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• All I want for Christmas: Folders for Google Docs

  This is perhaps the saddest article I’ve written: I’m opening myself up to endless ridicule by admitting how deeply I care about something so incredibly mundane and objectively boring. But I don’t care. I’m a champion of the people, and I’m prepared to sacrifice myself for ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google Docs gets an AI-powered grammar correction tool

  Suck at grammar? You'll be happy to know that Google's introducing a grammar checker into Docs; it'll use machine learning ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• No, Facebook employees aren't reading your private Google Docs files

  A viral post on Reddit speculates that Facebook employees are secretly reading private Google Docs files shared on Messenger. ...

  • Mix

• Massive Google Docs phishing attack swept the internet today [Updated]

  If you just received an unexpected email in which someone you know is sharing a Google Doc with you, do not open it. There is currently a rather massive phishing attack making its way through the internet. It's pretty sophisticated, and very easy to fall for. To summarize a ...

  • Napier Lopez

• WordPress.com for Google Docs lets you edit in Docs and publish in WordPress

  Wordpress is teaming up with Google to bring an integration for Docs that lets you write, edit and collaborate with colleagues ...

  • Mix

• Dropbox's Paper app leaves beta to take on Google Docs

  After more than a year in beta, Dropbox's Paper document creation app is finally ready for prime-time and is available to ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal