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Google Docs Network Errors! August 14, 2008

“I used to love her but I had to kill her…” ahh good old Guns N Roses.  Thats how I am feeling about Google docs today after some strange network errors on some large documents.  I’ve been doing some work with the excel and word processor parts of Google docs and up to now, I’ve been really enjoying them.

Great for collaborative work.  However recently 2 on-page SEO docs got to a fairly large size and Google started acting completely bonkers.  Constant “Sorry, a network error has prevented Google Docs from saving your changes…”  errors left me with some documents I have had to remove from Google docs. The issue is mentioned here.

But not only that, it seems that exporting the documents only exports half of whats in there.  The final resort is to simply copy and paste the Google document into a RTF doc, but I lose all of the bolding and text formatting I had in the google doc.  We are talking big docs and it will take me an 1.5 hours+ to re-add the formatting to the 100+ pages.

SO be warned!  Google docs is beautiful until you get large documents then turns into a big problem!