{"id":559,"date":"2010-04-13T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:56:43","slug":"more-fun-with-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/04\/13\/more-fun-with-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fun with Google Docs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>If you haven&#8217;t tried Google Docs yet, maybe NOW is the time to take the plunge, &#8217;cause it just got better.<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of the new changes, make sure you set your settings to take advantage of the new improvements. 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To take advantage of the new changes, make sure you set your settings to take advantage of the new &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/04\/13\/more-fun-with-google-docs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[388,175,389,55],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","tag-academia","tag-doing-it-right","tag-educational-technology","tag-google"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":477,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/01\/31\/fun-with-google-docs-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":0},"title":"Fun with Google Docs (Part 1)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, this is just too much fun. 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