Google Docs ... Please change to old document editor!

[parnote]

Hey gang!

As you may have noticed, Google Docs has changed their default document editor to a new one that does NOT have all of the features of the old version. The backlash on the Google Docs Help Forum has been harsh and quite negative from Google Docs users. The PCLinuxOS Magazine has relied heavily on those features of the old document editor that are missing from the supposed "new, improved" document editor.

You CAN retain the old version of the document editor. I'm going to ask that all of you who write articles for the magazine and all of you who edit articles for the magazine to PLEASE change your Google Docs settings to revert back to the old version of the document editor. Documents created with the new document editor are becoming problematic for those of us who retrieve the articles from Google Docs when we are assembling the PDF of the magazine every month.

Here's what you need to do:

1) Open Google Docs in your browser.

2) Click on "Settings" (upper right corner of the Google Docs screen), then "Documents Settings."

3) On the screen that opens, click on the "Editing" tab.

4) The second item down says "New version of Google documents." Make sure that check box is NOT checked.

5) Just to be sure, close out of Google Docs and log back in. Now, you should be using the OLD version of the documents editor.

Thank you for your assistance with this issue. I am currently exploring a couple of other options for the submission of magazine articles, should Google either not get Google Docs working properly, or should they decide to permanently take away those features of the old document editor that are so helpful to us.

Should it come to that, I will try to give you as much advanced warning as possible, before the change, should it occur.

Paul Arnote [parnote]
PCLinuxOS Magazine Chief Editor