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"The Google Docs team has been hard at work on numerous aspects of the online office suite, and they're ready to unveil the new features to the public.\nSpeaker, Google's answer to Microsoft PowerPoint, received some new features this week, according to the Google Docs Blog.  First is the addition of Speaker Notes, which allows the presenter to access chosen highlights of their presentation.  These can either be printed out in advance, or you can pop them up on the screen to show off to your audience.  You can also now embed videos from YouTube.  This could be quite useful if you wish to beat the dead horse further and \"Rickroll\" a room full of people in the middle of a presentation.\n\n\n\n\nThe Docs Blog is also reporting that the offline access feature enabled through the Google Gears plugin has also been added for spreadsheets and presentations.  Unfortunately these will be view-only for the time being, but it will at least allow you to show off your work wherever you need to go, and make presentation wherever you choose, regardless of whether you have an Internet connection at the ready.\nWith the continuing improvements to Google Docs, Microsoft has sufficient reason to be nervous about their future sales of Office. They themselves are building an online version, but with the ease of use of Docs, and quick access/integration with Gmail, it's going to be more difficult to convince some people to leave the Google empire. As more and more companies learn of their ability to inexpensively make Gmail their default domain email client, and allow multiple users in the company (even those located in remote settings) to collaborate on projects for free, the company's list of productivity applications will grow more appealing for users all around the world."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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