![]() In Part 1, I didn’t go into the details of migrating Office Contacts and Calendars to their Google counterparts. ![]() I now do all my email correspondence through Gmail, and it takes me considerably less time than it did on Outlook. That saved me the work of retraining the hundreds of business and personal contacts I communicate with. I didn’t need to change my existing email address - Gmail handles just about any type of address (and mail server). ![]() As I noted in last week’s Top Story, “Going Google (apps), Part 1: Move your mail,” I started with mail because it’s an application I use heavily every day - and moving from Outlook to Gmail was surprisingly fast and painless. Not true! Computing has always been about using the best tool for the job. But for the run-of-the-mill document creation needs of many home/small-business users, Google apps offer a fast, free/inexpensive, and mobile alternative to Office.Īfter the publication of Part 1, a small number of Windows Secrets readers complained that I was unfairly bashing Microsoft. Let me state at the start that Office is still the go-to suite for both corporations and individuals who need a high level of document compatibility and collaboration. And Office can be expensive - especially for small businesses with more than two or three employees who must use the suite. The recently released Office 2013 also adds changes to Office’s look and feel that a significant number of users find off-putting. Although Office has been for years the de facto productivity app for Windows (and, to a lesser extent, Mac), it’s become rather bloated. The premise of this series - going Google - is relatively simple. ![]() It started with a practical need - and Gmail Part 2 covers why and how you move Microsoft Office documents to the cloud and to Google apps. In Part 1 of this series on Google apps, I covered the relatively simple process of moving all your mail to Gmail. TOP STORY Going Google (apps), Part 2: Move your docs ![]()
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