Google+Docs+Imports

=How To Import Office Documents into Google Docs = With your Google account, you can set up personalized calendars, check email, and import and export documents. Google Docs allows users to send and receive documents, modify them and __share__ them with friends, family and co-workers. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can import your excel sheets into Google Docs so you can share, modify and export them again. >>  >>   >>   >>   >>   =Google Apps drops download support for older Office formats =
 * Go to the __Google__ Docs website. Log into your Google account using your email address and password. Click the "Sign in" button to proceed.
 * Go to the __Google__ Docs website. Log into your Google account using your email address and password. Click the "Sign in" button to proceed.
 * Click on the "Upload" button located in the top-left area of the page. Select the "Files" option from the drop-down menu.
 * Search for the Office Dpocument you would like to import and press "OK." Select the check box next to "Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and __drawings__ to the corresponding Google Docs formats."
 * Press the "Start Upload" button. After the document has been imported, click the "Go Back to Google Docs" link to go back to the page that lists all of documents.
 * Select the first document on the list, which should be the excel sheet you have just imported. Click the document link once to open the file in a new window.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010672/google-apps-drops-download-support-for-older-office-formats.html

[|John P. Mello Jr.] Google [|announced] Wednesday that Google Apps users will no longer be able to export word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents as files using older Microsoft Office formats, such as .doc, .xls and .ppt. Users of the search giant's consumer productivity suite, Google Docs, will still be able to export documents in the older Microsoft formats. The Google Apps change, which affects all versions of Microsoft's productivity suite from Office 97 to Office 2003, takes effect Oct. 1. Once the change is implemented, Google Apps users who do not have a version of Office that supports the newer document formats for Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) will need to convert documents exported from Google Apps into older formats. Such conversions can be performed with a free [|utility program] distributed by Microsoft. For organizations with a diverse user base, Google's action makes using its commercial productivity suite a potentially annoying exercise. Document collaborators using the older formats never needed to worry about whether their fellow collaborators had a newer version of Office because the suite is backward compatible. Even the latest versions of the suite can read the older formats. However, older versions of the suite can't read the newer formats. The lack of support for older formats could create friction among the collaborators of a document as they struggle to figure out why they can't view a file or why a document doesn't look the same to one user as it does to another. Google's ditching of support for older Microsoft Office formats is just the latest in a [|series of purges] of its productivity suite in recent weeks. Last month, Google shut down Google Apps for Teams, which let groups use Docs, Talk and Calendar without switching their email system to Gmail. Google also moved the Google Video for Business component in its Apps for Business and Apps for Education offerings to Google Drive.
 * Sep 27, 2012 10:50