Want to utilize Google Docs and Microsoft office together? Right here’s how you can use Harmony for Google Docs to integrates them effortlessly with Outlook.

Consistency for Google Docs is an interesting new plugin for Outlook 2007 (a version for Outlook 2010 is in the jobs). It allows you incorporate your Google Docs account with Outlook using a sidebar. From this, you can locate any one of your Google docs or publish a new record, and after that you can open the file to see or edit it in Outlook.

Getting going

Download Harmony for Google Docs (web link listed below), as well as mount as normal. Make sure Outlook is shut before you run the set up.

Next time you open Outlook, the new Harmony sidebar will instantly open up. Enter your Google Account information, as well as click Sign In.

Currently, all of your Google Docs will certainly turn up in the sidebar.

Double-click any documents to open it in Outlook. You might need to sign-in to Google Docs the very first time you open a document.

Right here’s a Google Doc open in Outlook. Notification that every little thing works, including complete modifying.

All Google Docs features functioned excellent in our tests except for the brand-new illustrations device. When we attempted to insert a drawing, Outlook had a script mistake. This was the only problem we had with Harmony, and might be because of a communication in between Google Drawings as well as Outlook’s rendering engine.

Harmony makes it very easy to discover any data in your Google Docs account. You can look for a documents, or sort your files by type, recentness, and also more.

You can likewise quickly add any type of record to Google Docs directly from Harmony. You can drag and also go down any type of paper, including one connected to an e-mail, to the Harmony sidebar, and it will directly submit to your Google Docs account.

As well as, when you’re creating a new email or reply, click the Show Documents button to open the Harmony sidebar. From here, you can include papers as usual and share it with email recipient.

Verdict

We formerly covered a comparable application OffiSync which incorporates Google doc features with MS Office. However, Harmony makes it much easier to utilize Google Apps along with Outlook. This offers you a simple and efficient means to team up on papers with colleagues, all without leaving Outlook. And, if your company utilizes SharePoint instead of Google Docs, Harmony provides a SharePoint edition that integrates with Outlook just as easily!

Link

Download Harmony for Google Docs (using cnet)