Google Drive & Docs in 30 Minutes (2nd Edition): The unofficial guide to the new Google Drive, Docs, Sheets & Slides

'Google Drive & Docs in 30 Minutes' was perfect for me as I am researching IT solutions for a small non-profit organization. As my background is in Microsoft products, I was not being totally open minded about the Google solution. Then I was talking with my son who is a pilot and Director of Safety for a freight company with 30-40 employees. They are running a lot of their company on Google Drive and couldn’t be happier with it. The great thing about this book is that now I can go back through and spend several hours working through all of the examples and getting a hands-on experience. All of the Google products are free so I can do that at no cost. Also, the author includes his email address and says to feel free to email him with questions about Google Drive or the guide. I emailed him with a question and got a very timely and thorough answer from him.

I really debated between two and three stars. Everything in the first chapter I ether knew or had done already. What I really wanted was how to import Word documents and spreadsheets from another computer into the Google Drive and docs and sheets. I searched the internet on this and so far have not found anything. I even had a hard time finding the extensions for Google docs and sheets. Maybe I was just looking too hard but finally found one for sheets. I notice there were indications for things like cheat sheets at an additional cost thru Amazon or you could create a PDF and pay on site. I was afraid to look up other suggestions for more information since it would probably be an additional cost. It is too bad this needed manual could note be more comprehensive.

This is a nice little book, that really help me with my work transition to Google products. This is more detailed than other training that was provided. I would suggest this to anyone looking to get some additional knowledge about Drives and Docs from Google.

I'm not sure if my issue is with this book or with Google DOCS it self, but I am working on a large (hundreds of pages) structured document and I can't seem to make even simple formatting things that any good word processing application offers (like widow and orphan control) work...nor lots of other things I'm used to in commercial tech doc or word processing applications. So, either Google DOCS should be used only for things like writing letters, or if it has better capabilities, thi book doesn't cover them.

I found myself suddenly a volunteer treasurer of a small no-profit and had to learn Google Docs and Sheets in a hurry. I wanted a concise, clear explanation of this useful tool. Google Docs in 30 Minutes really fills the bill. It answered all my questions in a very understandable and logical manner, with lots of step by step illustrations.

The book is short and sweet. Informative and hits all the points you need to become proficient. Well worth the money. I tried finding solid get-started info on the web and couldn't learn enough to get the tasks done I wanted. With this book in an hour I was up to speed and productive.

I used this book to get into Drive and Docs. The initial hurdle I had to overcome was getting away from Word's organization of folders and sub-folders and understanding that Docs is the word processor for Drive. I know this is elementary, but years of using Word is not that easy to get around. Obviously the title of the book is inaccurate, and no subject like Drive can be discussed in thirty minutes. The book is helpful.

I bought this book because I thought it would help me learn more about saving and editing a spreadsheet using Google Sheets. I was very disappointed about the lack of information in how to use Shhets.

Working as a consultant in an organisation that had just introduced Google Drive, I needed to get going fast. This book helped me understand how my rapidly acquired bits and pieces of knowledge fit together, and made sense of the whole area. It has also encouraged me to look at wider uses for Drive in my work. Clear and easy to understand, it also answered questions I'd been wondering about. For me, this book is just the right level of detail and terminology. Will look for others in the series.

A colleague and I had written a technical book that took us 5 years. We communicated by email with attachments that were limited in size. So any images that were two large for email were copied on to CD and posted.Now four years later we are embarking on another technical book with another author who lives and works in the USA and Luxembourg.So this time we are using the "Cloud" to collaborate and we all use Google so "Google Drive" was our choise. So that we are all using the same hyme sheet we needed a procedure to follow and "Google Drive & Docs in 30 Minutes" turned out to be just right for us. Chapters 2 and 6 covers every technique we will need. So I give 5 stars for my review.lMartin Flint

Give some good basic tips and it's a starting point if not used before, some of it is common sense.

Very good. Not sure what I was to expect, but was good.

Not enough information.