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Google Apps: The Missing Manual
by Nancy Conner
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Binding: Paperback
Feature: ISBN13: 9780596515799
ISBN: 0596515790
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Pogue Press
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ISBN13: 9780596515799
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Editorial Reviews:
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Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you do, you'll be in good company -- more than 100,000 small businesses and some corporations are already looking to take advantage of these free Google offerings.
Google Office: The Missing Manual teaches you how to use three relatively new applications from Google: "Docs and Spreadsheets", which provide many of the same core tools that you find in Word and Excel; and Google Calendar and Gmail, the applications that offer an alternative to Outlook. This book demonstrates how these applications together can ease your ability to collaborate with others, and allow you access to your documents, mail and appointments from any computer at any location.
Of course, as remarkable as these applications are, Google's office suite is definitely a work-in-progress. Navigating what you can and can't do and -- more importantly -- understanding how to do it isn't always easy. And good luck finding enough help online. Google Office: The Missing Manual is the one book you need to get the most out of this increasingly useful part of the Google empire. This book: - Explains how to create, save and share each of Google's web-based office applications
- Offers separate sections for Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Gmail
- Demonstrates how to use these applications in conjunction with one another
- Gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations that will satisfy users of all technical levels
Many of you already use Gmail, but do you know its full potential? Do you know how you can increase its power by using Gmail with Doc and Spreadsheets and Google Calendar? You'll find out with Google Office: The Missing Manual. You'll also come to understand why large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble are taking a long, hard look at these applications.
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Featured Customer Reviews:
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 Too many words! Too chatty.
Things like "There's something inspiring about a brand-new calendar..." aren't useful for me and yet the actual instructions are mixed in with narrative like that. for the 'missing manual' I'd hope for clear step by step instructions with the background to make it more intuitive. I'd like a book that speeds up my learning time on new software, not slows it down.
Excellent starting point for Google Apps users
Having heard a lot about Google Apps and Google Docs lately, I decided to learn more about them and how they might fit into the individual and collaborative endeavors of my life. Google Apps: The Missing Manual looked like a good place to start my research.
This book will do an excellent job of quickly bringing you up to a reasonable knowledge level on Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail and other Google Apps. I'm a big fan of "The Missing Manual" series, and this volume is every bit as informative and readable as the other dozen or so missing manuals I've read.
I was primarily interested in Google Docs, and this book had copious information that was more than adequate to get me up and running. There are a lot of subtleties hidden in Google Apps and how you can collaborate with them. Ms. Conner describes quite a few of these in her numerous "tips" inserts. In fact, I found the tips to be some of the most valuable parts of the book.
As a long-time desktop apps user who's worked collaboratively for huge corporations, the idea of using cloud-based apps is new and interesting to me. This book did a great job of describing where Google Apps would be appropriate and how they fit with desktop apps. For example, Ms. Conner made it clear to me that while Google Apps might be adequate for many routine uses, it may often be desirable to "polish" Google Docs with more capable desktop applications. Her clear descriptions and neutral presentation of capabilities, strengths, and limitations were very helpful here.
This book is extremely complete and should be useful to beginning and intermediate users. In addition, it includes several chapters that should help administrators set Google Apps up in a shared corporate environment.
I was a little confused by the Google Sites chapter, but I'm not really interested in web design. Overall the book is extremely informative and readable, and the information is presented concisely. I highly recommend it.
Great Book!
I am teaching a CLOUD COMPUTING w GOOGLE APPS course and chose this book for the students, as there are few textbooks on this topic. The writing is clear, lots of screen shots, and excellent price. The students really like it, too.
Thorough Introduction to Google Apps
I found myself gravitating towards the back of this book more and more, looking for help in transitioning two domains that I own to Google Apps. Now that I've read through those chapters, I can set up a domain for use with Google Apps in less than an hour, and most of that is the time waiting for Google to authenticate the services.
Having done that, I breezed through the remainder of the book--and that's a nice feeling. It's very easy to transition from Office to Google Apps, since the functionality is slimmed down and you're likely familiar with 95% of the features already. However, I really enjoyed the collaboration features that were documented in the opening half of the book, as they are not intuitively obvious when working with the site.
(Full disclosure: I was previously employed by the publisher O'Reilly several years ago. This has not impacted my review in any way.)
The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner is a beautifully presented and well illustrated manual about Google Apps. I was most pleasantly pleased by the completeness and breadth of the book.
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