Google Drive is a free web-based office suite and file storage service that provides alternatives to Microsoft Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel through online applications called Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets respectively. While Microsoft Office is produced by a for-profit company, Google Drive applications are classified as freeware. Key differences between the services include that Office accounts for a large portion of Microsoft's revenue, making it a high priority, whereas Google Drive currently generates over $1 billion in revenue per year but is considered a lower priority. Google Drive allows for real-time collaboration and includes additional applications like Forms and Drawings.

1. Detailed Information on
G-Drive Applications

2. Google Drive vs. MS Office
Small businesses and individuals who wanted a Spreadsheet, Presentation, and Word-processing package once had
one option: Microsoft Office. But now, Google Docs is also gaining in popularity.
One key, underlying difference between Microsoft Office and Google Drive is that Microsoft office is produced by a for-
profit company that uses some of its revenue for research and development. While Google Apps is classified as
freeware. It’s a web-based office suite and part of Google Drive. Users can make and alter documents online, and the
interface has collaborative properties, too. Tonic Systems developed a presentation program for Google Docs,
incorporating Writely and Spreadsheets.
The business version of Drive, its word processing, spreadsheet and storage service, was first introduced under a
different name in 2007. It now has revenue of over $1 billion a year, but current and former executives have complained
that it is a low priority inside the company because Google makes so much more money from consumer advertising.
At Microsoft, on the other hand, Office is an extremely high priority because of how important it is to the company's
financial health. The Motley Fool reports that Office accounted for 29% of all of Microsoft's revenue in the 2013 fiscal
year. Because of that, it's vital for Microsoft to continue to own the Office market. And it does. Gartner says that by the
end of the year 630 million business users will be using Office, with 50 million of them using a cloud-based version. And
by 2022, it says, 1.2 billion business users will use Office, with 696 million of them using a cloud-based version.

3. Google Applications
★ Key Google Drive office applications:
○ Document
○ Presentation
○ Spreadsheet
○ Form
○ Drawing
★ Additional useful Google account applications:
○ Calendar
○ Blogger
○ Adwords
○ Analytics
○ YouTube
★ Applications for communication:
○ Gmail
○ Google Chat
○ Google Plus

4. Key Google Drive Office Applications
Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other
people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:
● Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document
● Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff
● Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access
● Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document
● View your document's revision history and rollback to any previous version
● Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file
● Translate a document to a different language
● Email your documents to other people as attachments
You can upload and download in the following file types:
● .html
● .txt
● .odt
● .rtf
● .doc and .docx
● .pdf
★ Document

5. Key Google Drive Office Applications
You also can Share, Print and Publish your Google Document
If you want a hard copy of your document, you can print directly from Chrome or print it from a PDF from any other
browser. Once you're done creating and editing your document, you can publish it to a webpage. Go to the File menu
and select Publish to the Web. You also can send your document's URL to your friends, colleagues, and family, and
they can enter it in their browser address bar to view your document.
★ Document

6. Google Slides is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here's what you can
do with Google Slides:
● Create and edit presentations
● Edit a presentation with friends or coworkers, and share it with others effortlessly
● Import .pptx and .pps files and convert them to Google presentations
● Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a .txt file
● Insert images and videos into your presentation
● Publish and embed your presentations in a website
You can download in the following file types:
● .png
● .jpeg
● .svg
● .ppt and pptx
● .txt
● .pdf
★ Presentation
Key Google Drive Office Applications

7. You can upload in the following file types:
● .ppt
● .pptx
● .pps
In the new version of Google presentations, you can also access additional presentations options in the the toolbar at
the bottom of the presentation window. Here, you can select slides to present from a list, open speaker notes, print the
presentation, or download it in PDF or PPTX format.
You also can:
● Share a Presentation
● Embed a Presentation
● Publish a Presentation to the web
★ Presentation
Key Google Drive Office Applications

8. Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work
with other people. Here's what you can do with Google Sheets:
● Import and convert Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data to a Google spreadsheet
● Export Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data, as well as PDF and HTML files
● Use formula editing to perform calculations on your data, and use formatting make it look the way you'd like
● Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet
● Create charts with your data
● Embed a spreadsheet — or individual sheets of your spreadsheet — on your blog or website
Whether you are trying to create a spreadsheet for keeping track of personal finances or analyzing data in your
workplace, the new Google Sheets can help. The new version allows you to create and edit spreadsheets, whether
you’re online or not, and adds a number of speed improvements, new functions, features and more.
Here is a list of new features in the latest version of Google Sheets:
● Offline: Create and edit spreadsheets without an internet connection after setting up offline access in Chrome.
● Speed: New spreadsheets load and scroll much faster, removing many of the limits for formula complexity and
spreadsheet size.
★ Spreadsheet
Key Google Drive Office Applications

9. ● Improved formula editing: Check out our new function editing tools to help you build complex formulas.
● New spreadsheet functions: Now you can use highly requested new functions such as SUMIFS, COUNTIFS,
and AVERAGEIF.
● Filter views: Create, save, and apply multiple filter views without changing what your collaborators see.
● Advanced conditional formatting improvements: Apply formatting to your spreadsheet based on cell
contents or formulas.
● And many more, including colored sheet tabs, paste transpose, improved find and replace, and lots of new
number formatting options.
The new version of Google Sheets contains a number of new features and performance improvements. However, there
are a handful of features that are still in development and not yet available:
● Protected sheets and ranges
● Notification rules
● Spell check
● Gdata API support
● Some Apps Script functionality
● Import and export with .ods
● A few functions
★ Spreadsheet
Key Google Drive Office Applications

10. You can download in the following file types:
● .xlsx
● .ods
● .pdf
You can upload in the following file types:
● .xls and .xlsx
● .ods
● .csv
● .tsv
● .txt
● .tsb xlsx, ods, pdf
You also can:
● Share a Spreadsheet
● Embed a Spreadsheet
● Publish a Spreadsheet to the web
★ Spreadsheet
Key Google Drive Office Applications

11. Google Forms is a useful tool to help you plan events, send a survey, give students a quiz, or collect other information in
an easy, streamlined way. A Google form can be connected to a Google spreadsheet. If a spreadsheet is linked to the
form, responses will automatically be sent to the spreadsheet. Otherwise, users can view them on the “Summary of
Responses” page accessible from the Responses menu.
You can create a form from your Drive or from any existing spreadsheet. Also you can Control your form’s page-to-page
navigation. If you've divided your form into different pages by adding page breaks, you can specify which users see
which pages depending on their answers to questions in your form — sort of like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story.
When you've completed your form, you can send it to respondents via email or by sharing the form via social media. Just
click the blue Send form button at the bottom of your form or at the top-right corner of your browser window. You can
choose to share a link to your form, or you can add names, email addresses, and groups to the Add people field. Click
the Done button, and the people you’ve added will receive an email directing them to your form.
After you’ve sent out your form, Google Forms will begin collecting the responses you receive. You'll be asked to choose
how you’d like to store these responses. (Note: You can make this choice at any time while editing your form by clicking
the choose response destination button in the toolbar.)
★ Form
Key Google Drive Office Applications

12. You can choose either to send responses to a spreadsheet, or you can store them only in Forms. If you choose to store
them in a spreadsheet, you’ll be able to see individual responses as they come in. If you choose to store them in
Forms, you’ll be able to see a summary of all the responses you’ve received, and you’ll also be able to download the
responses as a CSV file.
You can also allow respondents to edit their responses by checking the box labeled “Allow responders” to edit
responses after submitting, which you can find at the bottom of your form.
If you'd like to send respondents a form with some fields already filled in, Google Forms makes it easy.
While macros are currently not supported in Google Drive, you can extend the capabilities of Google Docs, Sheets, and
Forms by adding custom menus, dialogs, and sidebars with Google Apps Script, a simple yet powerful scripting
language based on JavaScript. In Google Sheets, Apps Script also lets you write custom spreadsheet functions. If
you're familiar with Visual Basic for Applications in Excel, then you'll likely catch on to Apps Script quickly.
★ Form
Key Google Drive Office Applications

13. With Google drawings you can easily create, share, and edit drawings online. Here are a few specific things you can do:
● Edit drawings online in real time with anyone you choose, and invite others to view your edits in real time.
● Chat with others who are editing your drawing, from within the drawings editor.
● Publish drawings online to the world as images, or download them in standard formats.
● Insert text, shapes, arrows, scribbles, and images from your hard drive or from the Web.
● Lay out drawings precisely with alignment guides, snap to grid, and auto distribution.
● Insert drawings into other Google documents, spreadsheets, or presentations using the web clipboard, then tweak
them inline.
When you're working on a document, presentation, or drawing in compact mode, you can use the menu search box to
apply formatting options and take action in the file with just a few keystrokes - and no mouse! With the menu search box,
you can:
● Format text, such as bold, italics, or strikethrough
● Change the font or font size
● Insert images, links, or comments
● Make a bulleted or numbered list
● Open the sharing settings
● And anything else in the document, presentation, or drawing menus
★ Drawing
Key Google Drive Office Applications

14. Google Drawings lets you copy the formatting you’ve applied to specific object to another object using the Paint Format
tool. With the Paint Format tool, you can copy a shape or object’s background and line style. With a text box, you can
use the Paint Format tool to replicate the text formatting.
With Google drawings, you can create and collaborate on flow charts, design diagrams, and other types of drawings.
You can also chat with other editors from within Google drawings, publish drawings as images, or download drawings
to your computer. To get started, just go to your Docs list, click Create new and select Drawings.
You also can insert images into your drawing. However in order to insert an image, it must be:
● a .PNG, .JPEG or .GIF (no animated GIFs) File
● Max 2000 pixels in each dimension
● Max 2 MB
★ Drawing
Key Google Drive Office Applications

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