You can now add speaker notes and embed YouTube videos in Google Presentations.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and click the speaker notes icon at the bottom right of the screen to add speaker notes. Click 'Start presentation' and then click 'View speaker notes' to see your notes. To embed a video in a presentation, open a presentation for editing, click 'Insert video' and search for the video you want to embed.For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html
Users can now customize the cascading style sheet (CSS) for their documents. This provides advanced controls for page design, layout and formatting.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Docs and open a document. Then click 'Edit' from the menu bar and then 'Edit CSS...' to open the CSS editing window.For more information: http://documents.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94168
Previously, your Google Apps email address needed to be the organizer or an attendee of your Microsoft Outlook events for the Outlook events to sync to your Google Calendar. Now, when you choose to do a 2-way sync or a 1-way sync from Outlook calendar to Google Calendar, all of your Outlook events will be synced to your Google Calendar.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: To download Google Calendar Sync, visit http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe .For more information: http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
AuthSub is an authentication proxy service bundled with the Google Data APIs, which lets users gives 3rd party applications secure access to their Google Apps service data without having to trust those applications with their usernames and passwords.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: AllHow to access what's new: If you're a developer, visit the AuthSub documentation page to learn more about enabling AuthSub for your web applications. (see link below) For more information: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForWebApps.html
Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later timeEditions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Docs and click "Show search options". After entering your search criteria, click "Save this search" to have Google Docs remember the properties for your search. To run a saved search, choose the search you want from the "Saved searches" menu in the left panel or next to the search box at the top of the screen.For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html
You can now export a Google Presentation to the PowerPoint (.ppt) file format.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and choose "Save as PPT" from the "File" menu.For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html
Google App Engine is a development and hosting platform that allows developers to host web-based applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine is currently available as a limited preview release.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign up for the preview release at http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.For more information: http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91077
The Google Email uploader allows users to import messages and contacts stored locally in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird into Gmail.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Visit the Google Email Uploader homepage to download the application. (see link below)For more information: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.html
In the Google Docs document list, you can now change the colors of folders to help you organize your files more effectively. Also, users can now transfer ownership of documents and presentations, so the creator doesn't need to completely delete the file if she no longer wants to have that document or presentation in her document list.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: To change the color of a folder, sign in to Google Docs, select a folder and click the 'Choose color' link. To transfer ownership of a document or presentation, right click the file in your document list and click 'Change Owner'.For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html
Google Docs now has an improved menu bar when you're editing a document. You can select features from menus, or click icons in the toolbar for frequently-used features. The 'Save' and 'Save & Close' buttons also now appear above the toolbar.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Docs and open any document.For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html