Google Docs: Connecting & Setting Up

Google Docs: Connecting & Setting Up

• get access and connect to Google Docs
• open and edit a document
• discover the application tools
• create new documents
• use templates to create documents
• create a custom template
• navigate and browse a document
• use keyboards shortcuts in Google Docs
• configure the interface of the application
• install, use and uninstall add-ons

Google Docs is a web-based word processing application from Google.
Discover how to access the application, explore the interface, navigate documents, use keyboard shortcuts, customize interface elements, and work with add-ons.

Google Docs: Editing Documents

Google Docs: Editing Documents

• select a view mode to work with a document
• insert text in a document
• use the handwriting tool to insert text
• insert text with voice and commands
• insert special characters
• select characters, words and paragraphs
• copy and paste text
• cut, paste, and remove text
• find and replace text in a document

Google Docs includes numerous tools and features for editing your documents efficiently.

First, learn how to choose the most proper view mode to work with a document. Google Docs offers three different options to edit, review or modify a document. Next, explore several ways to input and manipulate text in a document, and discover how to easily find and replace text.

Google Docs: Formatting Text

Google Docs: Formatting Text

• apply text effects in your document
• install additional fonts
• change the text capitalization
• change the font and highlight color of your text
• select the alignment of your text
• change the spacing of your text
• use text styles
• customize your text styles
• insert borders to frame your text
• insert tab stops

There are numerous ways to improve the appearance of your text in Google Docs documents.

In this course you will learn how to change the aligment and line spacing to improve the readibility of your text. Next you will discover the different options to customize your text: fonts, colors, effects. You will also see how to text styles to automatically set text as titles or headings. This will be useful to create a table of contents.

Google Docs: Saving & Managing Documents

Google Docs: Saving & Managing Documents

• upload documents from a local drive
• extract text from images with Google Docs
• review statistics and activity of a document
• using online and offline documents
• create a back up version of a document
• restore a previous or recent version of a document
• set up print options
• save a document as a PDF and EPUB file
• save a document as a HTML file

Explore the basics of saving and managing documents in Google Docs.
Discover the several ways and places to save your document, including on your computer and on Google Drive. Continue by learning how to save a document as a Word, PDF, EPUB or HTML file.
You will also see how to get statistics for a document, including word count, and the number of lines or paragraphs in a document. Finally, you will learn how to manage a document's version history, and how to restore a previous or the most recent version of your documents.

Google Docs: Shaping & Formatting Documents

Google Docs: Shaping & Formatting Documents

• create a WordArt title
• create and customize numbered list
• create and customize a bulleted list
• format pages of a document
• insert page and section breaks in a document
• set text into columns
• add page numbers
• insert headers and footers
• insert a table of contents
• add citation sources and insert a bibliography

Make documents easier to read by changing the page layout in Google Docs.
Discover how to format documents by converting a title into a WordArt element. If you are working with list, conver it into a bulleted or numbered list with Google Docs. Learn how to organize the different parts of your document by adding page and sections breaks, as well as page numbers, headers, and footers. Lastly, see how to insert and customize a table of contents and a bibliography.

Google Docs: Using Research Tools

Google Docs: Using Research Tools

• proofread a document
• substitute text automatically
• configure the substitution tool
• use the dictionary
• translate a document
• use the Explore tool
• add information and images from the web to a document
• insert footnotes in a document
• use bookmarks to create endnotes

Google Docs gives you a suite of research tools to enrich your documents and manage your information sources.
Learn how to proofread your document before sharing it with others or use the dictionary to improve the quality of your text. You will also discover how to quote information from other documents or the web, and even select the citation format. Finally, see how to translate your document.