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Users Can Now Share Folders In Google Docs

Users of Google Docs have long asked for one feature in particular: the ability to share entire folders of content with others. Today, that feature goes live. So does the ability to upload multiple files at once. Which one has you more excited?

Being able to share folders -- rather than just individual documents -- is a major milestone for Google Docs. It's a feature so mandatory for some types of group work, that you'd think it would have been among the first features offered. Alas, it wasn't until today.

From now on, if you need to share multiple documents with one person or a group of persons, simply place them in a single folder and grant the right people with the access they need.

Vijay Bangaru, Product Manager, Google Docs, explains in a blog post, "Once you've shared a folder, all of the items in the folder will be accessible to the group. You can also add someone to an existing shared folder to give them access to all of the folder's content. Likewise, each item you add to the folder will be automatically shared. Just like with sharing documents, you can specify edit and view-only access for a folder."

That's good stuff. This means it will be easier for people to manage projects and share documents en masse when necessary. That everything is automatically shared once placed in a folder makes it all the easier and more like an on-site shared server system.

The other change Google is bringing to Docs today is the ability to upload multiple files at once. In a really quick test, I was able to upload ten files at once. The software would have let me keep going, but I figured 10 files at a time was a pretty good number. It took a little bit of time to upload all the documents, but once they were uploaded, each was saved as a separate doc in my master files list. Users can also chose to upload to specific folders.

These two changes are welcome ones, indeed, for Google Docs.

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