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Category: Productivity

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free, Web-based collaborative office suite. Users can make and share documents and spreadsheets with anyone who has a Google account. What makes the service really interesting is that multiple users can be working on the same document at the same time. All files are stored for free on Google's servers, and they can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.

While you need to be hooked up to the Internet to use these apps, you're also able to export Google Docs & Spreadsheets files to work with Microsoft Office and several other formats. Google recently rolled out a browser extension called Gears that will soon let users save their online office files locally and be able to work on them while offline.

Web site: docs.google.com

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