Google has announced a piece of good news on Monday – the introduction of shared folders in Google Docs. This is by far one of the most requested Google Docs features and it is now available to us.

Shared folders make it easy for a team of people to collaborate on projects that require multiple documents, spreadsheets or presentations. If you have a group of items you want to share, all that you have to do is put them into one folder and share it.

With shared folder, all of the items in the folder can be accessed by members of the group. You can add someone to an existing shared folder to give them access to all of the folder’s content.

Also, each item you add to the folder will be automatically shared. Just like with sharing documents, you can specify edit and view-only access for a folder.

Besides sharing of folders, you can now upload multiple files to Google Docs at the same time. Instead of picking one file at a time, the new upload page allows you choose multiple files and upload them simultaneously. You can then access the items from any device connected to the Internet or share them with people you choose.

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