A small window will pop up, asking you to give the new copy a name and to choose the language.To start, open the document you’d like to translate, and navigate to the “Tools” menu.The phone app doesn't offer the translation tool. To use the translate tool in Google Docs, you must open the file on a Chromebook or laptop. It's important to know that this translation is done by computers, so it may not be completely accurate. Google Docs has a built-in translation tool that uses Google Translate to make a copy of a document in a chosen language. You can tell you're looking at a Google Doc if it has this blue icon in the top left corner or if you're using the Docs app. Other examples of this trend are bringing Google Gadgets into Gmail, Docs and Calendar, Picasa pictures in Google Maps and more.Google Docs is Google's word-processing platform, and it looks a lot like Microsoft Word.

It seems that this is just another example of Google’s tying its apps together. Google also peeled off the beta label for Docs in July. It looks like along with new features, Google Docs may be getting a new interface soon, perhaps in the fight to one-up Microsoft Office’s new web-based productivity suite. Google says that formatting and layout of translated documents remains the same regardless of what what language it’s in. You can replace the original document with the translation or save the new translated version as a different document. This functionality uses Google Translate’s technology. In the tools menu of Google Docs, you can now click “Translate document” and choose the language to translate too. Today, Google is launching a feature in Google Docs that will automatically translate documents into 42 different languages.

Google docs is a useful application for sharing documents, but previously didn’t allow for sharing across different languages.

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