OffiSync Provides Google Docs And Searches Inside Office
Windows: Free Office 2003 & 2007 plug-in OffiSync lets desktop users open documents from, and save to, Google Docs’ online servers, but that’s nothing amazingly new. A newer Google Search option does, however, integrates powerful image and web searches.
That means that, rather than relying on Microsoft’s Clip Art repository, or switching away from Office to search for a usable picture, you can hit the Google Search button on your Office toolbar. Hit that button, click the drop-down box to choose the licence you want or need, set parameters for sizes and faces, and then find, click, and quickly insert that picture into your document or presentation. That feature, and OffiSync’s basic functionality, are pretty well explained in this video introduction:
OffiSync is a free download for Windows systems with Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 installed. What’s your favourite Office/web syncing solution? Tell us in the comments.
OffiSync [via Digital Inspiration]
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all they gotta do is make one for open office...
urbanturban666
The collaboration function seems nice, but what about check-in/out? What happens when two people are attempting to edit a document at the same time? Without check-in/out, would the last editor always win and everyone lose their edits?
@Bilsko:
Looks like it handles them just about as well as if you were to upload the file through the GDocs interface....to be expected, I guess.
Nice tool though - hope to get a bit of mileage out of it.
So I wonder what its going to do with Excel files with Pivot tables and/or large files with lots of formulas. Google Docs doesn't seem to play very nicely with those yet.
This seems great. I've tried to convert some of my family members to backing up their data via Google Docs, but this might be what makes them change their opinion.
Vages
I loved DocSyncer, a free app that would sync all of the documents on your PC with your Google Docs. Someone really needs to reincarnate that with Mac support.