Want to collaborate even more? Discussions now available in Google Docs


Comments have been updated to facilitate better discussions and seamless integration into email. Some of the features include:

- Improvements to the discussion flow by adding ownership and edit rights to individual comments. Each comment now has a timestamp and profile picture.
- No need to delete comments. You can resolve comments to remove them from the visible document and view them later by clicking the discussions button at the top of any document.
- Integration of comments with your inbox to facilitate more rapid and responsive communication. You can now add someone to a discussion with an @mention. For example, typing ‘@eddy@altostrat.com’ in a discussion will send a notification email to Eddy with the text of your comment.
- Eddy can open the document from the email, or reply via email and the reply will show up in the comment as soon as the email is sent.

Release track:
Rapid*

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
Create a new document, position the cursor or highlight some text and select ‘Insert’ then ‘Comment.’ You also have various options to configure how email from comments is received.

Please note that improved comments are only available in new documents at this time so if you want to try it out make sure to create a new document. The comments you’ve created in an existing document won’t be changed.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-discussions-in-google-docs.html
Comments in documents: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1208624

*Rapid Release track: Domains with ‘Enable scheduled releases’ checkbox disabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more

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