Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Google Docs

I just tried writing a sample letter on Google Docs. It seems to work about as well as Wordpad for doing simple editing. One thing I noticed is that I couldn't find a way to control the margins of the document when I printed it out. Another is that there were only a few type styles available, and there was nothing remotely similar to Times New Roman. I actually had a professor once that required that all our papers be written in Times, so I guess Google Docs would never work for submitting a paper to her. Other than that, I think it had all the functionality I need. It would be nice that I could share a paper between my home computer and my office computer. Although I always write my papers for school at home, I often end up doing last-minute editing in the library, and it's been a lot of trouble for me to keep remembering to email the latest version back-and-forth. Google Docs would solve that problem. Now if I could only change the margins, which most of my professors are sticklers about, I'd be all set!

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