Introduce an Interesting Website

Google Document, https://docs.google.com, includes a suite of applications which would be useful for your daily use. It is very similar to Microsoft Office 2010. Within this site, you can create a document, a spreadsheet, a presentation, and a form.

Google Document is similar to Microsoft Word. You can format the headers and text with different sizes and fonts or use the predefined styles for headers and text. You can insert web format pictures. You can create table of content for your document. You can share your document with your friends and limit them to read only or allow them to make modifications to it. This feature is very useful when you are working on a project with many people because everyone can contribute to it at the same time.

Google Spreadsheet is similar to Microsoft Excel. Google Spreadsheet works well with Google Form. You can create a form to collect information from the users, and the data that you collect is tracked in Google Spreadsheet. Similar to Microsoft, you can create spreadsheet formula to tally up the data  in different ways and create different graphs. Like Google Document, you can also share spreadsheet with other people and allow them to either view it and/or modify it.

Google Presentation is similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, an application to create presentations.  Like Microsoft Powerpoint, you can format the presentation and text in any way you want, or you can use one of the templates. You can insert pictures and videos in the presentation, and you can also add speaker's notes to each slide to remind yourself what you need to cover on that particular slide. You can share your presentation with other people for review, comment and contribute to the presentation.

There are some huge benefits of using Google Docs for your personal, school, or professional works. It is free, and you can access it any where in this world as long as you have Internet access. Your work is saved in Google infrastructure which is available 24X7, and you don't need to install anything on your computer. Unlike Google, Microsoft saves all your work on your local drive, and you need to have a copy of Microsoft Office installed on your computer in order to use it.  If you want to share and cooperate with other people, you need to put your document on a central server where everyone has access to it. Anyone who wants to view or modify your document needs to have a copy of Microsoft Office installed on his computer which costs about $500 for Microsoft Office 2010 professional version and $150 for the student version.