{"id":6742,"date":"2018-02-20T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:10:31","slug":"g-suite-share-collaborate-documents-presentations-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2018\/02\/20\/g-suite-share-collaborate-documents-presentations-online\/","title":{"rendered":"G Suite – to share and collaborate on documents and presentations online"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft Office is a suite of programs that I\u2019d imagine most people have encountered, whilst it\u2019s a good suite of programs and all University of Sussex staff have access to a full licence (<\/span>details on the ITS website<\/span><\/a> ), it is not the only option.<\/span><\/p>\n

G Suite is a collection of programs created by Google, which is free to use. If you already have a Gmail account then you will have access to G Suite, otherwise you can sign up using any existing email address. There are three main programs; Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets that are alternatives to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of secondary apps such as Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Hangouts and Google Forms but for this post we\u2019ll be focusing only on two of the most used programs, Google Docs and Google Slides.<\/span><\/p>\n