Google Apps and Microsoft Office include comparable programs for a number of different productivity tasks. You can use Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, Google Slides or Powerpoint to create slideshows, and Google Docs or Microsoft Word to edit documents. Both MS Word and Google Docs give you a handful of formatting options … Read more
Google Docs provides you with a lot of tools and formatting options that allow you to create the type of document that you need. However, you may be wondering how to insert a text box in Google Docs because there isn’t an obvious way to do so in the application. While much of the content … Read more
Documents that you create in Google Docs are stored in your Google Drive so that you can access them from anywhere. But Google Drive doesn’t just hold your Google Docs documents; it also holds spreadsheets that you create in Google Sheets, slideshows that you create in Google Slides, as well as other types of files … Read more
Creating and editing documents used to be something that was restricted to a desktop or laptop computer and was often performed in Microsoft Word. But the proliferation of Google Docs and its subsequent accessibility through mobile apps means that you might need to edit a document and a smartphone, which can leave you wondering how … Read more
A hanging indent is a formatting option in word processing applications like Google Docs and Microsoft Word that will automatically add a left indent to a paragraph while leaving the first line in the original location. A regular indentation setting will usually apply the reverse; meaning that the first line indent will be applied off … Read more
It’s very easy to make changes to the information in a document that you are creating in Google Docs, especially when it comes to formatting items like the font style, text size, or text color. Adjusting the appearance of your information can be a good idea for types of documents where the visual styling is … 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
Displaying information in a Google Docs document often involves typing paragraphs or basic lines of text. But there are many other ways that you can present data or objects, including a table. However, you may not be satisfied with the way that the table looks by default, which can leave you looking for a way … Read more
Copying and pasting information from other documents or sources can be a real timesaver when you are putting together a larger document for work or school. But not every document or source uses the same formatting, so you can wind up with a lot of different types of formatting in one document, which can leave … Read more
Properly formatting text is an important element in creating a document that is informative and easy for your readers to consume. Some of these formatting options are easy to find and use in Google Docs, while others might be a little trickier. One formatting task that you may be curious about is how to subscript … Read more