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Google Docs Adds Over 300 New Templates

Submitted by Merlin on July 17, 2008 - 9:57am.

Google Docs Templates

Google Docs recently added over 300 templates for a variety of business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Need templates for a calendar, a letter, a resume, or even Avery-compatible labels? You’re good to go.

My favorites are in the eclectic “Miscellaneous” section, where you’ll find templates for athletes, parents, wedding or event planners, wine nerds, screenwriters – even “animal guardians”.

Cool new resource and a neat idea. Yet another reason for MS Office to keep an eye on its dwindling lunch.

I’m looking forward to spending some time with these, because I’m a huge GDocs nerd. Can’t wait until you can edit Google Documents via your iPhone. That’s when the game really changes.

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I’m intensely curious

Submitted by mwr on July 27, 2008 - 4:41pm.

I’m intensely curious about the screenplay template, though - usually software that does the formatting properly costs proper money.

If you’re not markup-phobic, there’s a screenplay class included with MacTeX 2007 (and probably other recent LaTeX distributions). Markup for a minimal screenplay might look like:

\documentclass{screenplay}[2006/11/15]

\title{The Title of Your Opus}
\author{Your Name}
\address{99 Any Street \\
Any Town \\ Postcode / Zip \\
Phone \\
email@whereami }

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\fadein
\intslug[day]{Johnny's House}

After a slugline you would typically have some description. This is simply
ordinary text with paragraph breaks as per usual.

\begin{dialogue}{Johnny}
After some description you would typically have some dialogue.
\end{dialogue}

\fadeout
\theend
\end{document}