William Charlwood

Hopefully a little local and temporal difficulty with Google Docs this morning as one of my AdWords Management clients ‘phoned to asked me where a spreadsheet we are sharing had gone. Sure enough, when I looked into Google Docs, it was totally blank. A quick scout round the support forums showed that we weren’t the only ones with this problem. Curiously, and thankfully!, the data seems to be in place because I did manage to download a pdf version as a safety measure (although no formulae of course).

Generally I’m finding that I’m using Google Docs more and more but this episode will undoubtedly dent the confidence people have in the system. I like the idea of cloud computing but I do like to be able to rely on accessing my data when I want it. However, this is the first problem I’ve suffered from and provided the data is secure (and it seems to be) then I’ll definitely carry on using the Google Docs system, especially now that you can apply CSS style sheets to docs to make them look smart.

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