Google Docs is a Web-based version of an office suite. It allows users to create documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentations within the application through the web interface or sent through email. By default the files are saved on the Google server. Alternatively, the files can also be saved to the user’s computer in a variety of formats such as OpenOffice, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text and Word. Another feature of Google Docs is that it allows users to collaborate in real-time with other users. Multiple users can share, open and edit documents at the same time.

Each user is given a limit to how much they can store on their account. Documents may not exceed 500k, embedded images must not exceed 2MB each and spreadsheets are limited to 256 columns, 200 000 cells and 99 sheets. A user can have a total of 5000 documents, 5000 images , 1000 spreadsheets and 100 PDFs at one time. Google Docs is provided free of charge and its popularity is growing due to the enhanced sharing features and accessibility.