Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later time

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and click "Show search options". After entering your search criteria, click "Save this search" to have Google Docs remember the properties for your search. To run a saved search, choose the search you want from the "Saved searches" menu in the left panel or next to the search box at the top of the screen.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

You can now export a Google Presentation to the PowerPoint (.ppt) file format.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and choose "Save as PPT" from the "File" menu.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google App Engine is a development and hosting platform that allows developers to host web-based applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine is currently available as a limited preview release.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for the preview release at http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91077

The Google Email uploader allows users to import messages and contacts stored locally in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird into Gmail.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Email Uploader homepage to download the application. (see link below)

For more information:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.html

In the Google Docs document list, you can now change the colors of folders to help you organize your files more effectively. Also, users can now transfer ownership of documents and presentations, so the creator doesn't need to completely delete the file if she no longer wants to have that document or presentation in her document list.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To change the color of a folder, sign in to Google Docs, select a folder and click the 'Choose color' link. To transfer ownership of a document or presentation, right click the file in your document list and click 'Change Owner'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Docs now has an improved menu bar when you're editing a document. You can select features from menus, or click icons in the toolbar for frequently-used features. The 'Save' and 'Save & Close' buttons also now appear above the toolbar.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and open any document.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Gmail's faster, more flexible new codebase is now becoming generally available to Google Apps users. This change brings a faster interface and several new features including group chat from the browser, a streamlined contact manager, colored message labels, improved keyboard shortcuts and bookmarkable messages and searches.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Just sign in to Gmail. You'll know when you're in new version of Gmail when you see a link for "Older version" at the top right of the screen.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Spreadsheet gadgets let you visualize your data in interesting, intuitive ways. For example, you can see addresses on an interactive map, or create dynamic time series charts that let you zoom in and scroll through a graph.

Revision notifications let you set up alerts so you know when someone makes changes to a spreadsheet.

Other new features include the ability to select cells for formulas with arrow keys, an expanded color palette, text auto-complete from other cells in the same column, a new function auto-complete feature, and new sort(), filter() and unique() functions.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet, and click the 'Add' button in the toolbar. (The icon looks like a bar chart.) Then select "Gadget..." to see all the gadget options.

See links below for other feature access instructions.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/topic.py?topic=14187
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=91588
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=92022

Users can now synchronize their Google Calendar accounts with their Microsoft Outlook calendars. Synchronization works in both directions, or users can choose to only sync in one direction.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To download Google Calendar Sync, visit http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955