Google Docs

Hmm...Google docs is wonderful for those group projects when multiple people need to be updating the same document at the same time. For one of my library studies classes, my group needed to share and edit not only word processing docs but spreadsheets and a powerpoint presentation. I would have to say the sharing makes the word docs online the most useful. Unfortunately, the spreadsheet on Goolge is very poor compared to excel. Being a former recordkeeper, I'm advanced in excel and creating our budgets and workplans for our group project, I needed to use many advanced excel functions. The formulas and formatting are less than basic and many things are not accurate on google docs for spreadsheets...very disappointing. We found that it was better to have an excel spreadsheet to update, attach and email the new one to each member of the group...very tedious but resulted in a spreadsheet that retained all its accuracy and advanced formatting/formulas. Powerpoint was similar, but if you create the main presentation and then import it to google docs only to make minor adjustments, this is much more tolerable.