Live Documents is a free office suite online that provides online document editing  collaboration features. After you have created an account on the site you can start creating presentations, spreadsheets, and text documents.

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The interface for each type of document all loads up within the web browser. You will find that the most commonly used and most popular features are available in all the interfaces. The text document interface, for instance, includes languages, different fonts, formats and styles, text alignment, and paragraph properties. When you are done with your document you can save it and share it using the buttons located in the top right.

Sharing is possible either with specific Live Documents members or with everyone on the web by sharing the document’s URL. You can specify whether others will be able to edit the document or only view it.

Users of Live Documents get 100 MB of storage space and access to their documents in a wonderfully organized web interface that resembles an operating system.

Features:

• A user friendly web based office suite.
• Lets you collaborate on documents online.
• Supports presentations, spreadsheets, and text documents.
• Offers a neat and feature-rich layout.
• Lets you share documents via a URL or with specific Live Documents members.
• You can set editing rights for each member.
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Check out Live Documents @ www.live-documents.com

(update: apparently Microsoft Office has an option to change the entire document in capital letters to lower case. It even does one better and changes it to sentence case. You just have to select text you want to change and then press Shift+F3)

Goformat.com, on the other hand, does have this online text formatting ability. This site isn’t an online word processor, nor does it aim to be. Instead, Goformat.com offers a number of ways to quickly format a block of text. Whether you want to transform all letters to upper or lower case, remove all instances of annoying characters such as “>” (which tends to show up in forwarded emails), or simply add a capital letter to the beginning of every sentence, Goformat.com can do the job quickly and easily.

Like the idea, but concerned about using a web app to edit text you want to keep secure? Don’t be. The site is built entirely using Javascript, and sends no data to any server anywhere.

While the text editing tools described above are what opens when you go to GoFormat.com, some other tools can be found by clicking the “Tools” link at the top of the page. These include a random password generator, a URL formatting tool, a tool that can reverse backwards text and a nifty timezone map.

Features

• Browser-based formatting tool.
• Change all-caps to no caps and vice-versa.
• Remove all instances of special characters, such as “>”.
• Reverse text.
• Random password generator.
• Timezone map.
• Similar tools: UpperCaseIt, TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

Check out GoFormat @ www.goformat.com

Making voice presentations is easy. Just upload your file and then record your voice by calling a phone number provided by MyBrainshark. This tool has support for several video, audio, and document formats, so you won’t have a problem dealing with file conversions to make this service work for you.

MyBrainshark’s core functions are catered to businesses. The app is useful for corporate trainings, business presentations, product demos, proposals, and lectures. But if you are a blogger looking for a personal show-and-tell tool, Brainshark will also work well for your needs. You can also view other presentations from MyBrainshark’s rich content library.

You can register an individual account for free or you can view their small business and enterprise accounts if you are looking to integrate this tool to your business.

Features:

• Add voice narration to your presentations, documents, images, and videos.
• Support for several video, audio, and document formats.
• Add your voice by calling a Brainshark phone number.
• Useful for business presentations, lectures, product demos, training videos and more.
• Supports free individual and premium business accounts.

Check out myBrainshark @ my.brainshark.com

You can apply different fonts to the text sample and compare them in plain view, bold, italic and more. Change the sample text, text size, alignment, colour, decoration etc., in each of 3 text columns and see the difference.

Features:

• Compare fonts side by side online.
• Edit the sample text in the text area or insert your own text.
• Change text size, alignment, color, decoration, word space etc.,
• Apply settings from one column to another
• Free, instant comparison.
• Similar tool: FontPicker.

Check out TypeTester @ www.typetester.org