Last week, Google announced that the Google Docs viewer now supported .doc and .docx attachments. Yesterday Google made another announcement that they have released a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.

With our mobile viewer you can switch quickly between pages and pan/zoom within a page. On your iPhone and iPad, you can pinch to zoom in or out.

You can try it out by going to docs.google.com on your Android mobile phone/device, iPad or iPhone and select any document in these formats that you've previously uploaded.

This is a very nice feature, because it means that you can now view Docs, DocX files, PDFs and more on your Android, iPhone or iPad without having to install an app. So a lot of people who didn't make use of Google Docs before just found a reason to sign up for an account.