Editing your Google Docs on the go

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Cross posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Docs Blog and the Google Mobile Blog

With Google Docs, we’re always trying to make you more productive—and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime. That’s why we’re excited that the new documents editor now supports editing on your mobile browser. We’re rolling this out over the next few days.

That means that...
  • You can work on that important memo...while on the bus or train to work.
  • If you’re behind on a group proposal, but really want to make it to the ball game tonight, your whole team can work on it from the bleacher seats.
  • You can put the finishing touches on your big proposal while waiting to be met in your client's lobby.
  • ...and the list goes on!
Take a look at this video to see mobile editing in action:



It’s easy to get started: visit docs.google.com in a browser on a supported device, and select the document you want to edit. Then, when you’re viewing it, press the Edit button to switch to the mobile editor.

In the next few days, we’re rolling this out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. We’ll be adding support for other languages soon. And as before, we also support editing of spreadsheets from your mobile device’s browser.

We hope you enjoy editing your documents on the go—especially when you’re at the game with a hot dog in your other hand.

6 comments:

Saqib Ali said...

very cool.

Just out of curiosity, can the Authorization (OAuth/AuthSub) be passed from the NativeAndroid/ActiveSync email client to the mobile browser with docs.google.com? This way the mobile user won't have to login (yet again) using the browser when they receive a link to a GDoc in the email.

GTalk Labs Edition already does this. It should fairly straight-forward to do from the NativeAndroid/ActiveSync email client

Thoughts? Comments?

Saqib

Austang said...

Awesome, I have been waiting for this a long, long time. Going to edit some docs on my Android phone as soon as it goes live!

Wolfgang said...

Default I use the german language settings, I set the google language to english, the android language to english, but i still can't see the edit button

Paulo said...

This needs to work for 2.1 devices.

CabinetParts.com said...

Can this work on a Blackberry?

Sky Farmer Nat said...

Does this work for Google Apps users?

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