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Changing e-mail address for Google Apps user

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Now it is pos­sible to change an exis­ting Google Apps user email address (admi­nis­tra­tor inclu­ded). I am not tal­king about nick­name, but about real rena­ming (thus, it will also work for login). It works with stan­dard edi­tion too.

Kudos to Google Apps France for the finding.

Google docs features

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This is pro­ba­bly incom­plete. Input wel­come!

Howe­ver harsh I may appear by time, let me be clear: this is the most power­ful web edi­tor I know. I am very deman­ding (I am a cer­ti­fied Word spe­cia­list as well as a typo­gra­phy connois­seur) and well aware of Google Docs’s short­co­ming, but still I am very impres­sed. There is still room to grow, but most people won’t even use half of present-day fea­tures.

I won’t do the same for Spread­sheet, as I don’t know it well enough.

Basic fea­tures

  • Auto-saving
  • Cancel/redo
  • Limi­ted for­mat­ting: non-customisable style, frus­tra­tin­gly basic tem­pla­ting, bold/italic/underline, strike-through, super­script and sub­script, left/right/center/justify, nes­ted lis­ting (now with hybrid ordered/unordered), line-height (limi­ted), para­graph spa­cing (limited)
  • Web­fonts (limi­ted choice, no advan­ced typo­gra­phy set­tings like swashes, alter­nate let­ters or liga­tures; Word or Tex­te­dit lovers, be on your way.
  • Insert link, anchor, dra­wing, image, foot­note, spe­cial cha­rac­ters (impres­sive), hori­zon­tal line (buggy with table of contents, though), visible page break, table of contents (awk­wardly cus­to­mi­sable), hea­der, footnotes
  • Search/replace (limi­ted: the only option is case-sensitiveness—way below Word)
  • Table (up to 20×20 cells quick crea­tion, unli­mi­ted after)

Prin­ting

  • Native prin­ting. Nor more PDF in-between. Ctr+PCmd+P sup­por­ted (which means you can­not print the HTML page of the Google Docs—you can only print the doc itself, but I don’t see any use for this anyway)
  • Visible pagi­na­tion (can print pages num­bers too)
  • A4, Exe­cu­tive,…
  • Laand­scape or portrait
  • Back­ground color (won’t be prin­ted, though)

Import/export

  • Import: Word (ODF too?), pic­ture (OCR), uncon­ver­ted Word (with a pre­vie­wer; not that faithful)
  • Export: ODT, PDF, RTF, text, Word, HTML

Loca­li­sa­tion

  • Lan­guage selec­tion (for spell­che­cking and translation)
  • Trans­late document
  • Per­so­nal dictionary
  • Cus­to­mi­sable cha­rac­ter repla­ce­ment (© => ©)

Col­la­bo­ra­tion

Going Wave!
  • Live com­men­ting (impres­sive) with mail alerts and @mentions
  • Real-time col­la­bo­ra­tion
  • Advan­ced access control
  • Revi­sions

Layout

  • Ruler
  • Indent/outdent
  • Free­floa­ting pictures

Others

  • Equa­tion (not cal­cu­la­tion; just wri­ting; LaTeX alter­na­tive, MathML?)
  • Com­ple­tely full screen pos­sible (brow­ser full screen + hide ruler + two time hide com­mand + hide war­ning bar). Wri­te­Room beware!
  • Sta­tis­tics (word coun­ting, signs counting)

Regrets

  • Still no offline brow­sing :(

Shared contacts in Google Apps: I finally understood

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I keep rea­ding that Google Apps allows sha­red contacts and that it does not allow sha­red contacts? Why two oppo­site statements?

Because its sha­ring is not what most people expect when tal­king about sharing.

What you can share is the list of users in your domain. Not the list of partners/clients/prospects. And this is what most people (me inclu­ded) expect.

Sha­red contacts, but not sha­red address­book. And this is dee­ply annoying. This is the num­ber one fea­ture request for Google Apps (clo­sed, read-only sur­vey, sorry). Hope­fully, someone at Google will inves­ti­gate upon this.

Gmail and label colours

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Che­cked today: when applying a colour to a label and its sub-label, colour only apply to already-existing sub-labels. If you create a new label later on, it won’t have any colour, you will have to update it manually.

Depen­ding on cases and people, it may be a fea­ture or a limi­ta­tion (for me, it is a limitation).

Mail features that Gmail doesn’t support (yet)

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  • Recipient-based mail for­mat­ting. Your boss wants you to attach an nice signa­ture, but you hate HTML. With offline clients (Thun­der­bird, Out­look…), you can decide to reply with HTML for a given contact and with plain text for others
  • Sender-based reci­pient address. You have confi­gu­red two addresses for sen­ding: me@home.org (default) and me@work.com. Way too often, you acci­den­tally send a pro­fes­sio­nal email with your per­so­nal address. The only known soft­ware I know which can prevent this is the incredibly-powerful-but-scaringly-CLI mutt (and the even more power­ful mutt-ng)
Want them? Ask for them!
Tem­plate:

Recipient-based mail for­mat­ting. See http://goo.gl/yyR6Z

Sender-based reci­pient address. See http://goo.gl/yyR6Z

On Google Contacts

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When ente­ring a new contact’s email address, Google will auto­ma­ti­cally scan its data­base to check if this user has a public pro­file with a pic­ture. If s/he does, then it will be dis­played on the contact entry. Neat!

This pic­ture won’t show up as a thumb­nail in list view, though.

Selecting a date range with Calendar

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This will later be part of a lon­ger chap­ter about Calen­dar. For now, it will be a stan­da­lone post without any intro­duc­tion to Calen­dar — this will come later.
It is pos­sible to select an arbi­trary date range with calen­dar, as shown here.
Three days
Two weeks
Just a limi­ta­tion: after more than seven days in a row, Google Calen­dar switches to week selec­tion. Which means that after 7 days comes not only 14 days, but also Mon­day to Sun­day (or Sun­day to Mon­day, depen­ding on your locales). And that you can’t have a ten-days calendars.