Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced offline access to Gmail, Calendar, and Docs through its HTML5 Chrome web application. ‘

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has added Pivot tables to Google Docs to make it easy to summarize large sets of data. To set up a Pivot table, go to Data > Pivot Table Report after selecting the data. When editing the pivot table report editor, set the rows, columns, and values. Fields in the values section can be added as a Sum, CountA, Average, Max, Min, or Product. Check out the video demo below:

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a Google Docs application for the Android operating system. Users will be able to search, edit, and share documents through the app. The Docs can be easily shared with contacts on your phone from within the app itself. You can add a widget to your home screen for easier accessing starred documents, taking a photo to upload to docs, or creating a new Doc with one tap. Photos taken with the Google Docs Android app converts text in the photo into editable Google documents using optical character recognition (OCR). Tap on create a new “Document from Photo” or select the camera icon on the widget to convert the photo into the editable document. [Google Mobile Blog]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has added Pagination to Docs. Now Google Docs have a ruler for controlling the margins, text wrapping, and pagination. Pagination allows you to see visual pages on the screen. Pagination should be available to everyone by the end of today. Headers now show up at the top of every page and manual page breaks moves the text onto new pages. Footnotes appear on the bottom of the pages as well. If you want to disable Pagination on Docs, go to View->Document View->Compact. [Google Blog]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced that discussions have been added to Google Docs. The discussions are rapid and seamless with e-mail integration. The discussion flow has ownership and edit rights to individual comments.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced a new plugin called Google Cloud Connect. Google Cloud Connect lets you simultaneously collaborate to documents on Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010. It also adds revision history, cloud sync, unique URLs, and simple sharing to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. You can download the plugin for Windows at this Google Tools link. Video demo below: [Google Docs Blog]

The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people to view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. Now Google Docs Viewer supports 12 new file types. This makes it easier to view content without the need to open desktop applications. Below is the list of the new file types that Google Docs Viewer supports:

Google recently made it easier to edit Google Docs & Spreadsheets documents on mobile devices and tablets. If you want to edit fonts or align a paragraph, then you will need to visit the Desktop version of the document editor on the iPad. To insert formulas into Google Spreadsheets using an iPad, you will need to click on Go to spreadsheet view at the top of the mobile view. Then you will be able to insert formulas into an editable formula bar. [Google Docs Blog]