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Spreadsheet gadgets for work or play
May 22, 2009
Some of you are probably already done for summer (lucky!) while some are still slaving away studying for finals -- or starting to gear up for summer school. But in any case, we bet you'll be excited about a few new gadgets in Google Docs spreadsheets that can be useful for work or play.
1. Flash Cards
(by Seth Glickman, previous Web Development Intern) - Easily create flashcard sets. HTML is allowed. Ideal for foreign language vocabulary sets, AP Chemistry common ions... anything you'd use flashcards for. Remove cards from view once you know them well enough, shuffle the remaining cards, change languages and more.
Try this out
.
2. Word Study
(by Pamela Fox, Engineer)
- Create interactive word games. You can guess using word jumbles, type-ins, or multiple choice, and you can choose to have the hints come from Google Image Search, Google Translate, Wikipedia, or your own spreadsheet.
Try this out
.
3. Word Search
(by Pamela Fox, Engineer)
- Create an interactive word search from a column of words in a spreadsheet, with a user-specified number of rows or columns.
Try this out
.
If you have some free time on your hands this summer, you can even create your own gadgets and applications using our
spreadsheet gadgets API
and the
spreadsheet Data APIs
.
Posted by Ronald Ho, Google Docs Product Manager
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