Over the past few weeks I had been working on a presentation for the Wellington Regional Primary (school) Principals Association. One of the surprising facts that came out of the preconference online survey I conducted was that 89 per cent of the principals (thus schools) used Gmail and Google Docs.
Therefore of course I had to update my skills and knowledge of these two programs.
While I'm an avid Outlook fan because of the stunning integration with the other Microsoft software - such as calendar, Excel and Word, you could have blown me away with a feather with the new Gmail features I discovered.
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As with any other software program, they're all hidden these gems, and in this day and age, who has the time to snoop around your software and try to eke out time saving features. In Gmail, many of them are hiding in labs.