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along the lines of what people know from their typical desktop applications from years ago. Writely (there still doesnt seem to be an official name for this editor ever since it moved to Google) seems to be one of the most heavily worked on Google applicatons that does not have any advertisement stuck to it; a bit of its visual history can be seen below.

Indeed, tabs as Writely used them were a slightly wrong metaphor for the Insert functionality " as the full content below the tab did not change " albeit it made some sense for the revision history, HTML editing mode, as well as the sharing features. Sharing is now accessible by a button at the top right, whereas the revision history moved to the File menu, and the HTML editing to the Edit menu.

The menu has a bonus other than just allowing Google to keep the interface uncluttered while adding features; theres now enough place to print the keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+K to insert a link) right next to the entry. On the downside, at least in Firefox the menu is overlaid by the blinking editing cursor, which looks slightly confusing. Also, the other apps of the Google office suite " Presentations and Spreadsheets " do not have the new-style menus yet, which adds some inconsistency.

In other Google Docs news, you can now pick folder colors in the file explorer, and a new menu entry of the More actions button lets you directly change the document owner. Plus, there were some Google Spreadsheets changes recently, including the (apparently new) functions Sort, Filter and Unique.

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