Storing all of your contacts in your Gmail account is helpful when you get a new smartphone and want to quickly have access to your contacts on that device. It also makes it much simpler to find email addresses and phone numbers in Gmail when you need them. But the process of adding new contacts … Read more
Adding different elements to a presentation can make it much more enjoyable for your audience. It can also be useful for people who are viewing the presentation on their computer after you share your presentation from Google Drive. One way that you can make information stand out, especially if that information is conducive to a … Read more
By incorporating some of the less-commonly used features of word processing applications, it’s possible to achieve exactly what you want with your document. So you may find yourself in a situation where you need to strikethrough text in Google Docs. If you find that you often have part of a document that you are unsure … Read more
Cell shading is an effective way to draw attention to data in your spreadsheet without having to modify the actual data itself. But you may have a cell to which you have previously applied a fill color, only to find that the data has changed, or that the formatting of the document dictates the removal … Read more
Setting the default applications in Microsoft Windows is important if you have more than one program on your computer that can handle certain types of actions. Having multiple Web browsers on one computer is very common, and all of them want to be the default browser. So if Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or something else … Read more
The Google Slides app that is part of the Google Apps suite of programs is a strong alternative to other popular slideshow applications like Microsoft Powerpoint. It has a rich feature set that you can use to customize your slides and create a strong presentation that is both informative and looks good. Slideshow presentations that … Read more
Google Docs documents can contain a lot of different page and formatting options, including the number of columns. So you may be wondering how to switch from two columns to one column in Google Docs if the current settings no longer match your current document needs. Certain types of documents that you might create with … Read more
These steps are repeated below with pictures. Formatting requirements can vary significantly depending on the situation involving the documents you are creating. You could be editing a scientific document that needs subscript and superscript, or it could be a newsletter or flyer that needs to look good from a distance. Some requirements are meant to … Read more
If you are familiar with Google apps like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, then you have probably spent some time in Google Drive. Google Drive is the cloud storage service that is part of your Google Account, and it’s where you can go to find a Google Docs file that you have been … Read more
While the amount of line spacing in Google Docs is often a single setting that you adjust to meet the requirements or your school or workplace, it’s possible that you need to change other settings as well. One such setting, called paragraph spacing, involves spacing that can appear before or after a single paragraph, or … Read more