Google Docs receives 450+ new fonts and 60+ new templates

by Alistair Lowe on 3 May 2012, 10:56

Tags: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)

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Over the past few months, Google has been implementing no end of changes to its Docs system in an effort to bring a competitive edge to what was originally a bog standard on-line document editing tool. This year alone, Google has introduced offline access for Android, customisable styles, sparklines, donut charts and error bars for spreadsheets, Google+ sharing, stock photos, PDF and Scanned document OCR, collaborator comments, support for keyboard shortcuts in cells and cloud-powered spell checking. Let's not also forget some GUI redesigns and the more recent introduction of Google Drive.

This time around, Google has focused on moving away from a handful of web-fonts and has introduced over 450 new fonts to Google Docs, with users able to select those they're most interested in and import them into their collection for access from the usual font menu.

In addition to a huge array of new fonts, Google has extended Doc's image import functionality, allowing users to import images straight from Google Drive, the LIFE photo archive or even directly from a webcam. The firm has also introduced over 60 new template documents so that users can get straight down to business.

To follow updates made to the Google Docs and Drive collection, head on over to Google's developer blog.



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Awesome, I love the continued development of all things Google.
It really isn't bad as long as your documents are short - I now use Google docs as my sole ‘Office’ suite for home. However when at work it can show a weakness in speed on large files, especially doing stuff like filtering on 10000row+ spreadsheets. The refresh time is painful and shows we're a long way off cloudy apps being suitable for everything..