Mountain View, California — Relentlessly attempting to keep its products and services alive, last month Google Docs unleashed drag and drop image insertion, and now the global search engine leader Google on Tuesday updated its cloud-based Office rival Docs by adding two new useful functions to Google Docs user interface — the ability to drag-and-drop upload documents to Google Docs, as well as Compact Controls.
In a company blog post, Google mentioned that users will now be able to effortlessly upload their documents from their own computers to the cloud by simply dragging and dropping the file into the program.
The company said: “Today we are extending that functionality to the file upload page, making it even easier to move your files into the cloud.”
Users can now drag and drop Word, Spreadsheet and Presentation files to share them — basic accounts is bundled with 1GB of storage; users can purchase additional storage here.
If you are Internet Explorer buff, then, you are out of luck. The drag and drop feature is only supported on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, this feature lets the user to upload files and docs just by dragging and dropping them.
The Google Docs editor also received another small but welcome update, which is designed to save screen space. The Google Docs logo, the title bar and the links on top can, at times be distracting. With compact controls users will be able to hide the control bar by going to [View > Compact Controls or pressing Ctrl+Shift+F], the user can hide those, thus bringing online document editing experience a step closer to offline editing.
Doing so changes the side of the toolbar like this:
Again, this particular feature is only available on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The new features are live for all users, visit your Google Docs account to try them out.