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Google Docs adds expertly-designed templates

Lauren Kate Rawlins
By Lauren Kate Rawlins, ITWeb digital and innovation contributor.
Johannesburg, 03 Mar 2016
Google now offers document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates created by five experts in their fields.
Google now offers document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates created by five experts in their fields.

Alphabet's Google has expanded its Google Docs, Sheets and Slides offering by adding new templates "designed by experts".

All templates are available on the Web and on Android and iOS. Users will now be able to make use of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created by five experts in their fields.

Small business owners can take advantage of the annual business budget template in Google Sheets, designed by QuickBooks.

GV, a venture capital business, created a pitch template in Google Slides to help entrepreneurs share their vision, based on proven presentation tactics.

Authors and brothers, Chip and Dan Heath, delivered a Google Slides template for creating a memorable presentation, based on principles from their book, Made to Stick.

Reading Rainbow, a US children's TV series, provided a lesson plan and book report template in Google Docs for teachers and students.

The Google Science Fair, an annual online science and engineering competition, organised a Google Slides template to help students with their science projects.

Last month, Google added voice commands to Google Docs, allowing users to dictate, navigate, format, and edit documents entirely by voice.

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