Yes, you can save files in the .TXT format.
In Google Docs, just next to the CREATE button is an icon that is an Upload button (also red), click that and set "Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings to the corresponding Google Docs format" then choose your Word .doc file and upload it. The document will be converted into a GoogleDoc.After finishing your document, copy and paste the whole of it into your google document. If this doesn't work then you will have to create it on google docs.
When you look in your gmail account, look at the top left corner. You will see something that says documents. Click on that and you will find the documents and power-points you saved. Just click on the file you want and edit.
You cannot download it to Google docs. You have to download it to your system first. After that you could upload it to the docs.
Google documents is a fantastic way to create, share, and manage online documents. It contains spreadsheets and regular word-like documents. You can set privacy settings so the document is shared or private. You can access the document from anywhere with internet.
In an older version of Google Docs only ten (10) people can edit/alter a document AT THE SAME TIME. In the newer version, however, up to fifty (50) people can alter and/or edit a document at the same time. Documents can be sharred with up to 200 people.
In order to send a document from Google Docs, you must first make it available to the e-mail product you use.Since Microsoft Outlook and documents you create using Google Docs are made possible by two different vendors, you are required to take a few extra steps to get the results you want.Here are your options:From within Google Docs, you can Share your document with a person with an e-maill address, giving them specific permissions, orFrom within Google Docs, Download your document as a .PDF file, to your desktop.From Outlook, choose the file you want and attach it to your e-mail message.
GTalk and Google Docs are separate Google products. You can collaborate with others using Google Docs by granting permissions. You collaborate using text. The collaboration panel is visible on the right side of the document (for left-right reading languages). Adding GTalk would duplicate the collaboration panel. GTalk does not involve developing documents, although you can send files.
Google Docs presentation-type documents can also be created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Both are called presentations.
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There is no lower or upper age limit set for use of Google Docs. If you have permission to use a computer, can launch a browser, and have a GMail e-mail account, you can access Documents from the top of your GMail page and use Google Docs.
You can access documents from Google Docs at docs.google.com on your ipod when it is connected to a wifi network.
If, by 'elaborating' you mean adding comments, you can choose to Insert Comments using those options if they are available on the Google Docs toolbar for your document.