Need To Export Your Google Docs?

Have you ever not used Google Docs because you didn’t know if you would always have access to the cloud to work on them? Once they are there then they are stuck there – right? WRONG!

I love it. Google has just released a new feature in the Docs app to allow you to export your documents to the most popular formats. This is really cool! If you are like me then you have some cases where Docs makes sense. Most of the time for me that means that I need to share a document with someone and collaborate on it. Bryan (http://www.geekerrific.com) whom I do Everyday Geek with and I use Docs all the time to work on podcast planning. We have lists of tasks that need to be completed as well as show setup lists. Amazing how easy it is to work on the document at the same time.

But there is always that chance that a document that was worked on in Google needs to be sent somewhere in a different format.

“Convert, Zip and Download” now joins dozens of other liberation features across our product offerings, ranging from Blogger’s full blog downloads to email export from Gmail using IMAP and POP3. The feature lets you bundle your Google Docs in a format of your choice (MS Office, Open Office, PDF, etc.) and download them as a zip file. No longer do you have to download each document individually, which can take a lot of time if you have hundreds of documents like I do! All you need to do is select the relevant Docs, click on “Export” from the “More Actions” menu and download them in one go. (Check out the Google Docs Blog for more details.)

I encourage you to take a look at this new feature. To know that you can export your written docs in Word format or your spreadsheets in Excel format is a real asset. I also love the fact that you can export as a PDF. If you don’t have a utility to make a PDF on your computer, then a quick and dirty way could be to import a doc into Google Docs and then export it to PDF.

Happy Googling everyone,

Geek on!