Gmail has been out of beta since three months. Still, Gmail Labs has actively continued adding new enhancements to it. Now, Gmail Labs brought new content preview feature of Google documents, spreadsheets or presentation in the same Gmail window. Hence, users can now get a preview of such documents in Gmail itself on receiving link to either of the files.Earlier this year, Gmail got PowerPoint and TIFF file viewer by default. And now, Gmail Labs brings Google Docs viewer in Gmail. The new "Google Docs previews in mail" feature comes handy when email carrying link to Google Doc (Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation) are received.
Gmail auto-detects document name as well as type of document and displays when Google Doc link carrying email is received. Icons depicting the type of document will be shown in email with the option to "Show preview" and also "Open in new window" would be available. What if document preview is available for text documents sent in any file format? That would be interesting but that would require quite a conversion for Gmail.
To get this feature from Gmail Labs, click on Labs icon and check Enable in front of "Google Docs previews in mail" option and save the change. So, users can now preview Google Docs besides YouTube videos, Flickr photographs and Picasa albums.
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