Google Docs basics

Watch a video on getting started with Google Docs

Here's what you can do with documents:

• Upload and convert Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text (.txt), Open Office (.odt), and StarOffice Writer (.sxw) files (or create documents from scratch).
• Easily format your documents.
• Invite others by email to edit or view your documents.
• Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators.
• View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
• Publish documents online to the world, as webpages or post documents to your blog.
• Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
• Email your documents out as attachments.

Check out the Google Documents getting started guide

Here's what you can do with spreadsheets:

• Import and convert .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data.
• Export .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data and PDF and HTML files.
• Use formatting and formula editing so you can calculate results and make your data look the way you want it.
• Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet.
• Create charts and gadgets.
• Embed a spreadsheet, or individual sheets of your spreadsheet, in your blog or website.

Check out the Google Spreadsheets getting started guide

Here's what you can do with presentations:

• Share and edit presentations with your friends and coworkers.
• Import and convert existing presentations in .ppt and .pps file types.
• Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a TXT file.
• Easily edit your presentations.
• Insert images and videos, and format your slides to fit your preferences.
• Allow real-time viewing of presentations, online, from separate remote locations.
• Publish and embed your presentations in a website, allowing access to a wide audience.

Check out the Google Presentations getting started guide