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A Peek Into Some Productivity-Boosting Google Apps Features

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Article Overview: Google Apps as a robust cloud-based collaboration services suite that helps organizations in enhancing their efficiencies. It has established itself as an information architecture of choice. In fact, it has served as a lynchpin in changing the organizational mindsets towards the adoption of the Cloud and how it could be used to drive down the operational costs while maintaining the productivity-levels on the higher scale.

A Peek Into Some Productivity-Boosting Google Apps Features

We all know Google Apps as a robust cloud-based collaboration services suite that helps organizations in enhancing their efficiencies. It has established itself as an information architecture of choice. In fact, it has served as a lynchpin in changing the organizational mindsets towards the adoption of the Cloud and how it could be used to drive down the operational costs while maintaining the productivity-levels on the higher scale. Though you might already be aware of its features and functionalities, let me run you through some of its very useful tricks and features that will be instrumental in bolstering up your organizational productivity.

Google Forms

If you’re planning to have an organization-wide meeting and wishing to discuss the agenda with your key employees, then you must be musing over pelting a stack of emails on them. However, these email bombs could be avoided with the help of a handy Google Apps feature called ‘Forms’. This enables you to create surveys and questionnaire, which you can share with your entire team and ask them to suggest their inputs on any strategic matter.

Google Docs – Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

If you have some important text in the form of a image and you want to edit that, then the OCR feature of Google Docs could be useful to you. This converts the high resolution images containing text into a typewritten text that you can easily edit. Remember that the file-size for such a conversion shouldn’t exceed more than 10MB.

Google Apps Script

Google Apps also allows you to automate a slew of features, such as mail merging, sending emails, altering values in Google Spreadsheets, etc, with the help of Google Apps Script. Google offers a series of interactive tutorials on Scripts designed for basic, intermediate, and advanced users.

Google Drawings

Sales and marketing professionals keep working with presentations every now and then. And it’s a huge bonus for them if they could share these presentations with their co-workers to have real-time feedback and assistance on them. Google Drawings helps precisely with that. This magnificent Google Apps component has been designed keeping the need for presentation-sharing at the center. You can create interactive charts, diagrams, pictorial reports, and the likes with ease and precision.

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