Simple, Useful Tricks on Google Products
As part of its Drive service, Google offers Docs, Sheets and Slides which is roughly same as Microsoft’s Word, Excel and Presentation. Started as web based word processor in 2006, it has come a long way with myriads of features. We use this category to write about all the productivity and troubleshooting articles on Google Docs.
The PDF format is intended to be read-only to store and exchange files safely without worrying about anyone secretly editing the content. Although, it’s impossible to edit a PDF file without leaving an electronic...
Text boxes can be formatted and customized separately from the document text, so they can be great for attracting attention towards an important text. However, in Google Docs the option to add a text box...
You are the owner of every file that you create or upload in your Google Drive account. You may not know but “owner” is an exclusive privilege that can’t be concurrently shared with anyone...
Knowing how to superscript or subscript is really important if you need to work with formulas or cite data. In Google Docs, you can enable superscript or subscript as a toggle and enter the...
Strikethrough or draw a line through text is a very useful option for making amendments. For example, if some text is added mistakenly or is no longer viable, then you can strikethrough it to...
By default, a new document in Google Docs has a dedicated space at the top to enter the header details. Although the header is needed for long documents, but most regular documents don’t require...
When you edit a shared Google Docs document, other collaborators can easily hover over your profile icon to see your name and even access your Google Plus profile. This can be quite a problem...
If you use Google Docs for academic writing, you’ll probably get stuck while trying to make a hanging indent. Google Docs doesn’t offer a button to create hanging indents like Microsoft Word. However, you...
Although Google Docs is a powerful document creation tool, but it doesn’t offer the ability to create a checklist. I won’t blame Google for this, after all, Google Docs isn’t a to-do list app....
By default, Google Docs loads documents in portrait orientation. It works for most text and images based documents, but may not work very well for documents with wide tables or graphics. Thankfully, Google Docs...
For a few months now, I am using Google Docs text-to-speech feature to read aloud my documents so I could make them sound more natural. Honestly, it’s a really powerful tool with a plethora...
One thing I love about Microsoft Word is its real-time word count widget that immensely helps in keeping you under the word count limit. However, on Google Docs, the word count widget is hidden...
