Major Update for Google Docs, no word on if this includes Google Apps users

Major Update for Google Docs

This is gen­er­ally ter­rific news. Google Docs is already great, but the learn­ing curve has been tough for those unac­cus­tomed to work­ing in the cloud. The new inter­face and col­lab­o­ra­tion tools will ease that sell, I think.

Besides using a new infra­struc­ture, the doc­u­ment edi­tor and the spread­sheet edi­tor will add many new fea­tures. The doc­u­ment edi­tor has real-time edit­ing, side­bar chat, a new com­ment­ing sys­tem, bet­ter for­mat­ting and an improved import­ing fea­ture. The spread­sheet edi­tor brings back auto-complete, adds a for­mula bar for edit­ing cells and you can now drag and drop columns.