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Google to offer presentation feature in Docs & Spreadsheets

<b style="color:#900;">blog</b> But enhanced software isn't intended to compete with products like Microsoft Office, says CEO Eric Schmidt.

Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
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Google is adding a feature in its Docs & Spreadsheets Web-hosted software that will enable people to create presentations and slide shows, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Schmidt showed a short presentation that was made using the new feature, which he said would be launched soon, but was not more specific. "It's a way of doing presentations," he said in a keynote session. "Collaboration is a killer app for how communities work."

Asked by blogger and author John Battelle if Google's enhanced Docs & Spreadsheets would compete with Microsoft Office, Schmidt said: "We don't think so. It doesn't have all the functionality, nor is it intended to have the functionality of products like Microsoft Office."

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