Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Trick of the Trade: Embedding Google Docs document in blog

Google Docs is constantly improving and growing. One of the cool features is that you can embed any document within your blog. Whenever you edit the Google Docs document, it automatically updates in your blog.

How do I do this?
  • Within your document in Google Docs, click on the upper right "Share" button and select "Publish to Web".
  • In the pop-up screen, select "Start Publishing".
  • Copy and paste the provided HTML code in your blog. 
  • With a little HTML editing, you can make the optimize the margins bigger than the teeny preset dimensions. To change the margins to 440-pixel width and 500-pixel height, add the extra text (in bold) into your code as follows:


And ta-da! Embedded is my handout from a recent talk on mobile apps in Medicine.

4 comments:

  1. I'm also a fan of the Google Docs form embed. I use it for theNNT's Suggest a Review Topic, so whenever anyone suggests something, it gets compiled into a nice little spreadsheet that we can all view.

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  2. I agree that docs is coming along nicely in allowing one to transition fully to "the cloud". I've been using one of their new chromium OS laptops where you are essentially limited to internet only, and I find that with Docs and the other google apps, I am able to do just about 90% of everything I could with a standard laptop. Their "powerpoint" app still needs a lot of work, but with Prezi (www.prezi.com) available, I haven't really needed it.

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  3. @Graham: That's cool! Is that Google Docs using the Form template? Whata great idea.

    @Threehills: I'm still chicken to go completely "to the cloud". Not sure why. That's amazing that you can get 90% of of your work done. Thanks for the insight!

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  4. Yup, sure is, Michelle.

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