Tag Archives: Docs

A few months after Google added emoji reactions to Google Docs, the company’s making it easier to include them in your actual document as well. Today, it announced a new shortcut that lets you easily insert an emoji while writing, so you no longer have to pull up your computer’s picker or copy and paste the icons from other places. The new system gives you several ways to get at emoji, which Google lists in this help document. The simplest is to just type “@[emoji name],” and… Source link

Google announced today that it’s updating some of its apps to work better on tablets. Google introduced Android 12L earlier this year to make tablets easier to use, and at I/O, the company announced plans to update more than 20 Google apps on tablets to optimize them for larger screens. Today, Google said it’s adding several new features for Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep to get started on this promise. The most notable feature announced today is the… Source link

For me, there’s a certain irony in creating content for a living, but absolutely dreading the look of a blank word processing document. As a writer, the less time I spend inside a word processor, the better. So I’ll take any opportunity I can to minimize typing and formatting. These three Google Docs features speed up my process exponentially. Best of all, they’re really easy to use. Voice typing If you can talk, you can type—and much faster than actually typing. Google Docs has a great… Source link

In 2005, a four-person company called Upstartle launched Writely(Opens in a new window), an online-only word processor that took advantage of a then-new browser technology called AJAX. Writely let you create, save, and retrieve documents in your browser that were stored on a server. It worked so well that Google bought Upstartle less than a year later. At the time, that acquisition was considered a gamble. Today, online web apps are the norm. Google’s office suite now includes not just… Source link

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images Eric Adams has a “system in place” for tracking homeless encampments on the subway: a shareable Google Doc. When a police officer sees an encampment on the subway, the New York Post reports, they are supposed to record the location in the document. Adams checks the Google Doc regularly and gets… Source link

Google Docs is getting an absolutely lovely feature that could cut down a lot of busywork when it comes to properly formatting your document: the ability to select multiple sections of text at once. If you’ve got two sentences separated by a heading, or want to apply the same effect to three different words throughout a paragraph, you can now do so by simply selecting the text all at once, and applying your changes. Selecting multiple text sections is extremely simple: select the first… Source link

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. I posted five useful things to do with Google Docs last week. This is a follow-up with some handy-but-hidden Google Docs features. 1. Translate text instantly Share your doc in another language. Your original is preserved—Google Docs just creates a translated copy of your document. It’s not human quality, but it’s enough for the gist.How: Go… Source link

For hundreds of millions of users, Google Docs is in regular if not constant use. Behind it’s apparent simplicity—just open it up and start typing—there are numerous features and tools to explore, many of which help you tailor the app to your needs and can improve your productivity and your workflow. We’ve picked out some of our favorites—and at least some of them should help you do more in less time inside Google Docs. Dictate Your Text Dictating documents doesn’t work for everyone, but… Source link

Google has announced new dropdown and table tools for Google Docs, as it attempts to evolve its word processing software into more of a collaborative productivity tool. The search giant calls small modular features like these “smart chips,” and they’re part of the “smart canvas” initiative it launched last year. The features are rolling out over the course of this month across all Google Account tiers. The dropdown tool lets you insert a small dropdown menu into a Google Doc,… Source link

Google’s office collaboration tools Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings will now show a warning banner when you open potentially malicious files from the web, the search giant has announced. This banner already appears when dodgy files are accessed from within Drive, as well as from suspicious links within separate Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings files. The broader rollout should help protect users in a wider range of situations. Confusingly, Google’s January 20th announcement post… Source link