Google Apps: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)

Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you do, you'll be in good company — more than 100,000 small businesses and some corporations are already looking to take advantage of these free Google offerings.

Google Apps: The Missing Manual teaches you how to use three relatively new applications from Google: "Docs and Spreadsheets", which provide many of the same core tools that you find in Word and Excel; and Google Calendar and Gmail, the applications that offer an alternative to Outlook. This book demonstrates how these applications together can ease your ability to collaborate with others, and allow you access to your documents, mail and appointments from any computer at any location.

Of course, as remarkable as these applications are, Google's office suite is definitely a work-in-progress. Navigating what you can and can't do and — more importantly — understanding how to do it isn't always easy. And good luck finding enough help online. Google Apps: The Missing Manual is the one book you need to get the most out of this increasingly useful part of the Google empire. This book:

• Explains how to create, save and share each of Google's web-based office applications
• Offers separate sections for Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Gmail
• Demonstrates how to use these applications in conjunction with one another
• Gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations that will satisfy users of all technical levels

Nancy Conner has a PhD in English from Brown University and has taught writing, including technical writing, to college students for more than a dozen years. She is currently a freelance copyeditor, specializing in technical books covering topics ranging from the MS Office suite to programming languages to advanced network security.

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Google Apps
• Chapter 2: Word Processing with Google Docs
• Chapter 3: Working with Docs Spreadsheets
• Chapter 4: Creating Slideshow Presentations

• Chapter 5: Gmail: Email Google-Style
• Chapter 6: Keeping in Touch with Google Talk
• Chapter 7: Tracking Schedules with Google Calendar

• Chapter 8: iGoogle: Google Your Way
• Chapter 9: One-Click Web Design with Page Creator

• Chapter 10: Putting Google Apps to Work
• Chapter 11: Administering Google Apps
• Chapter 12: Bring Your Team Together with Google Sites
• Chapter 13: Beefing Up Google Apps

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