Google Docs: Now more than just spreadsheets

Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, now have a wide range of templates to choose from.

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Google announced the templates on Thursday, which were created by Google and a number of companies with experience in the business. They can be browsed and opened through a template gallery that currently has 294 to choose from.

Among the options: business cards; cover letters; invoices; sports predictor, wedding photo albums; party invitations; and even a Sudoku template.

Some templates, such as the group shared expense report, are explicitly designed to take advantage of the fact Google Docs can be edited by multiple people, one of the natural advantages the technology has over PC-based editing.

And Google said user-generated templates will be an option later. "Eventually, we want to give everyone a way to submit templates so we can capture the broadest set of use cases and let the user-rated favourites bubble to the top. But we don't have a specific timeline to share at this time," the company said.

Original article: Google Docs gets a profusion of templates from CNET News.com