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= [wiki:help/en Cyberduck Help] / [wiki:help/en/howto Howto] / Google Docs =

Connect to your [http://docs.google.com/ Google Docs] account to access all your documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

== Uploads ==

You need a [http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/details.html Google Apps Premier Account] to upload aribtrary files not supported by any of the Google Docs editor application. You will get an error message titled `You do not have permission to perform this operation` if you do not own a Google Apps Premier account. Follow these [http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60217 instructions] to upgrade your Google account.

== Preferences == 

=== Download Formats ===

Google Docs supports exporting documents in different file formats. Choose the default export format for documents, spreadsheets and presentations downloaded in the [wiki:help/en/howto/preferences Preferences].

=== Convert to Google Docs format ===

To edit uploaded files in ''Google Docs'', supported documents must be converted. Choose not to convert documents, if you want to use your account for storage only.

The following document formats can be converted to ''Google Docs'':
  * For spreadsheets: `.xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv, .tsv, .txt, .tsb`
  * For documents: `.doc, .docx, .html, plain text (.txt), .rtf`
  * For presentations: `.ppt, .pps`

Refer to [http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50092 Uploading and exporting: Uploading any file] for more information.

=== Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ===

When the ''OCR'' option is enabled, attempt to extract text and create a new document from PNG, JPEG and GIF images uploaded instead of saving the image itself to Google Docs. 

=== Google Apps Accounts ===

To access the Google Docs storage of your company's [http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/docs.html Google Apps] Account, use your email address connected to your Google Apps account for the username.

== Limitations == 

 * [http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37603 Upload Size Limit].
 * No transfer rate throttling for uploads.
 * File filtering not applied for uploads.
 * Synchronization is not supported.
 * Replacing/overwriting or appending a revision to a document is not supported.