Today Google released a feature for Google Docs to make multi-lingual document sharing easier — you can now automatically translate documents into 42 different languages.

Translating documents is easy, go to the ‘Tools’ menu, select ‘Translate’ document, then choose the language you want to translate to. Google Docs will open the translated document in a new window, then offer to replace the original document with the translation or copy the translation to a new document.

You can always replace the original document with the translation or make a new translated version. All the formatting and layout is preserved no matter what language it’s in.

Source: Google Blog via LifeHacker