You can now check your spelling in spreadsheets. The tool will go through all the cells on your sheet, highlighting each cell which has a misspelled word in red. Words that might be misspelled in each cell are underlined in red and can be changed by clicking on them and selecting the right spelling.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
When editing a spreadsheet, select ‘Tools’, then ‘Check spelling’ to check your sheet. Click ‘Next’ to go to the next cell and once all the cells on one sheet have been checked, you can continue to the next sheet.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/check-spelling-in-google-spreadsheets.html
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58193

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Auto-linking: Now when you type something that documents recognizes as a link, it will become a link automatically. If you don’t want your text to be a link, you can undo the auto-linking by pressing Ctrl Z (Cmd Z on a Mac).

Preferences: If you don’t want automatic link detection, you can disable it completely by opening the ‘Preferences’ dialog from the ‘Tools’ menu. You can also permanently disable curly quotes (smart-quotes) in this dialog.

Page sizes: More page sizes have been added to documents. Find the new options in ‘File’, then ‘Page Setup’ when editing a document.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/auto-linking-preferences-and-page-sizes.html

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Google Calendar Sync for Outlook (version 0.9.3.6) now supports Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and currently only 32-bit is supported.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
Download

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

Note: If you’re already using Google Calendar Sync, you’ll need to download and install this new version in order to be able to sync with Outlook 2010. This is a standalone sync tool for Google Calendar only.

For more syncing options, please review the information on Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=23333.

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A new version of Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange has been released with the following new features:

IMAP support – Administrators can use the tool’s new IMAP capabilities to migrate email from systems like Novell Groupwise to Google Apps, or even migrate data between Google Apps accounts.

PST support – Administrators can migrate PST files on behalf of users in their domain once they have aggregated users' data files in one location.

Better support for hosted Exchange – Administrators can now migrate data from hosted Exchange by running the migration tool on local servers, without requiring the Exchange hosting partner to run any special software on their end.

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download Page

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/going-google-made-easier-with-better.html
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We recently released version 1.6.18 of Google Apps Directory Sync which includes support for multiple organizational units in Google Apps. This lets you specify how you want to synchronize organizational structures in the General Settings page in Configuration Manager. You can then set up organization synchronization rules and organization mapping in the new Org Unit section of Configuration Manager.

Editions included:
Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106368

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You can now convert files already uploaded to your documents list into a Google Docs format. Previously, this option was only available on upload. This includes converting image and PDF files to text using our recently added Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

The full list of files that can be converted include:
For spreadsheets: .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv, .tsv, .txt, .tsb
For documents: .doc, .docx, .html, plain text (.txt), .rtf
For presentations: .ppt, .pps
For OCR: .jpg, .gif, .png, .pd

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- While in the document list, right-click on the file you want to convert and select ‘Make a Google Docs copy’. This doesn’t modify your original file and adds a new Google Docs copy to your docs list.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/convert-files-in-documents-list-to.html

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A new curves tool has been released in Drawings. The new curves can be left open or closed, and can be filled or unfilled. You can also adjust points on the curve after drawing it.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- When editing a drawing, click the new curves tool icon in the toolbar to draw a new curve. The new tool is to the right of the ‘Arrow’ tool.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-curve-tool-for-drawings.html
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=28131

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Today we launched 9 new apps from 3rd party developers, available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Many of these apps are free or have free trials and include project management, data backup, resource management, and communication tools. You can add these integrated applications to your Google Apps subscription with just a few clicks.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Government and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
- Go to http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace
- Choose an app from the productivity, accounting and finance, document management or project management categories, among others.
- Click the blue ‘Add it now’ button to add the app for your users.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/app-tuesday-nine-new-apps-announced-for.html

If you’ve #gonegoogle, and tried the #appsmarketplace, let others know what you recommend - via Twitter, Google Buzz or submit your suggestions for additional apps to us.

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If you use Google Chrome, now you can drag and drop attachments from Gmail messages to your desktop.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
In Chrome, drag the icon for a Gmail attachment to your desktop.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/drag-and-drop-attachments-to-save-them.html

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Several new features have been added to Google Docs:
- Tables in documents can now be resized
- Custom entries can now be added to the spell check dictionary for documents
- The document ruler can now be set to 'on' or 'off' across sessions
- Entire drawings can be copied to the web clipboard

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To resize tables in documents, click and drag the row or column dividing lines.

To add a custom entry to the spell check dictionary, right-click your new word and select 'Add to dictionary'.

To turn the document ruler 'on' or 'off' across sessions, click 'View' and change your 'Show ruler' preference.

To copy an entire drawing to the web clipboard, click the web clipboard icon and select 'Copy entire drawing to web clipboard'.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/table-resizing-and-other-niceties-in.html

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