As a blogger with bad grammar and spelling, I have learned that Google comes in pretty handy. When I don’t know how to spell something I type into google click on images and check if that matches what I wanted if it doesn’t then I would spell it a different way. Usually I used to use Word to write my post, but since then and after 30,000 words I have finally evolved passed grade 2 spelling, with the help of my friends of course. But checking my spelling and with google then coping and pasting grew pretty tiresome. Then after around my 10 blog I realized that Google had a Word type feature called Google Docs. I thought it would be some lame Notepad type deal but it just so happens that this -in some ways- is much better then word. No auto-detection of i’s or auto capitalize the first word of a sentence but -I know this may sound sketchy- it does help me in the long run anyway. But with Google Docs the ENTIRE DICTIONARY is at my finger tips. Don’t know how to spell something press look up word and Google chrome will automatically open a new tab and search while I continue my blog. Also Google Docs may have a primitive  spelling detection but that forces me to figure out the spelling my self -or because I am to lazy to do a search :P , (baby steps)-. In every students life there has been a moment of “O shit my Power Point doesn’t work” or “SHIT!!!! I used a .docx instead of a .doc file type now my crappy computer at school won’t know how to read it.”. Well with Google Docs you have a PDF option, Presentation option, Document, Spread Sheet, the list goes on. So if you ever find your self in this situation your search for the ultimate cure is finally here. Google Docs is still in Beta so there may be a few minor issues like the spelling detection and other things. But now you don’t have to go out and Buy that $100 suite, that you know will screw you in the end. 


Google Docs with its online function works like a dream. Forgetting your project or screwing up your presentation is a thing of the past. But what if a scenario comes up that you don’t have Internet. Google Docs got your back in that department too. You can work offline as well, you will need to download Google gear but it opens up so many possibilities and cuts down on many issues which may come up with Word. Say your Internet goes out, Google Docs will continue to save your work on your COMPUTER, and when your Internet comes back Google Docs will update your online copy. Or say you have a laptop and you need to catch a bus just get on the bus and continue typing, when you return home again go on Google Docs and then Google Gears will update your document, presentation, etc, automatically. If I want to check something in word, I can’t even download a blog in word format, Open Office, PDF, RTF, Text, and HTML. If you are a business man and you want to present a Presentation, you can invite people to view your Presentation over a computer. Some one can be in China, while the other is showing them the business plan in the U.S.A.

I would recommend using Google Docs to anyone the only down side is that you need a Google account -but who doesn’t have one of those :P -. (plus using Gmail looks more pro on a resume, since I bet your Hotmail account has numbers and 3 for E and 8 for ATE and what not. Just don’t do that again with your Gmail account.) 

Hope this has given you and insight on my new discovery, I would probably delete the Word suite if this wasn’t my dads computer and that I don’t completely trust Google docs yet, I still keep a copy of blogs in word. Not to mention the spelling-detection ‘GOOGLE’ Docs doesn’t recognize google, and Gmail so how can I trust there product….(sorry for sounding like a sales rep :P )