How to Add a Hyperlink in Google Docs
Hyperlinks are an important part of not only the websites that you visit but also many of the documents that you create or read in …
Google Docs How-To Guides
Tutorials to answer questions and help you figure out how to perform different actions in the Google Docs application.
Not sure where to start? Check out our featured Google Docs guides below:
- How to Insert a Text Box in Google Docs – learn how to put a text box in your document if you need to display text over a picture.
- How to Do Subscript in Google Docs – find out how to format text in a Google document with the subscript setting.
- How to Use Strikethrough on Google Docs – add or remove a line through some of the text in your Google Docs file.
How to Print from Google Docs on iPhone or Android
When smartphones first started to gain popularity, the prospect of printing something from them seemed like a pipe dream. Printers were already hard enough to …
How to Change Table Color in Google Docs
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 …
How to Make Google Docs Landscape
Some important Google Docs settings can be difficult to find, and one such setting involves how to switch the page orientation of a Google Doc. …
How to Change the Paper Size in Google Docs
While documents that you create for work or school might just use letter or A4 pages, if you are using really big fonts or making …
How to Stop Automatically Capitalizing Words in Google Docs
Capitalization in Google Docs occurs the same way that is does in many other programs. You can press the Caps Lock key and make everything …
How to Set Google Docs Table Row Height
Office productivity suites often include tools that let you adjust the size or unit of measure for your data. You can switch between inches and …
How to Put a Line Between Columns in Google Docs
Google Docs has a lot of different settings and options that let you format a document. You may have already figured out how to add …
How to Copy Formatting in Google Docs
If you have spent a lot of time getting text in part of your document to look the way you want, then you might have …
How to Download Google Doc to Word File Format
If you are using Google Docs and Microsoft Word, or if you work with people that use both applications, then you are probably managing multiple …
How to Turn Off Automatic List Detection in Google Docs
Google Docs will automatically format certain types of content that you add to your document. One of these involves things that it thinks might be …
How to Create a Newsletter Using a Google Docs Newsletter Template
Organizations typically have members that want to be kept up to date with what is happening in that organization. This can be accomplished through several …
How to Print Google Docs Files from Chrome
Being able to edit and share documents easily with Google Docs can make it much easier to provide copies of your work with other people. …
How to Split a Google Doc in Half
When you create new documents in Google Docs, or upload them to Google Drive, content that you add will span from the left margin to …
Can Google Docs Save as DOCX?
While Google Docs is growing in popularity, you may still need to work with Microsoft Word. Fortunately Google Docs can save as DOCX. Use these …
How to Disable Google Docs AutoCorrect
Google Docs includes a number of features that can help you ensure that your document has correct spelling and capitalization, but many of those features …
How to Change a File Name in the Google Docs iPhone App
When you create a new document in Google Docs, the file will have the name of “Untitled” by default. This can be confusing when you …
How to Alphabetize a List in Google Docs
Spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets give you ways to sort your data easily, making things like alphabetizing a list a quick task. …
How to Add a Page on Google Docs Mobile
The steps in this article are going to show you how to add a page on Google Docs mobile. Word processing applications like Microsoft Word …
Google Docs iPhone – How to Make a File Available Offline
While your iPhone will typically have an Internet connection wherever you are, occasionally you may find yourself someplace where you can’t get a cellular or …
How to Add Page Numbers in the Google Docs iPhone App
The steps in this article are going to show you how to use the Google Docs iPhone app to add page numbers to your document. …
How to Add a Picture to a Header in Google Docs
This guide is going to show you how to place a picture in the header of your Google Docs document so that it appears at …
How to Create a Custom Text Substitution in Google Docs
Is there a word or phrase that you type a lot, but it’s either long and tedious, or you often misspell it? Constantly fixing the …
Quick Way to Download a Google Docs File in the Microsoft Word Format
When you have a Google Docs file in your Google Drive (such as a Google Docs newsletter) you are able to open that file in …
How to Select All Matching Text in Google Docs
If you’ve ever needed to fix a formatting mistake, or if you consistently mistyped or misspelled a word on your document, then you might have …
How to Stop Underlining Spelling Mistakes in Google Docs
The Google Docs application, like other word processing programs, includes a feature that can help you identify spelling mistakes. These mistakes can be easily identified …
How to Translate a Document in Google Docs
Do you have a document that’s in the wrong language? If you work with people in other countries, people who speak other languages, or you …
Why Are My Google Docs Edits Being Inserted as Comments?
Google Docs provides a significant number of ways for you to edit a document. Whether you are changing the margins in the document, or simply …
How to Insert a Bookmark in Google Docs
You might be familiar with using bookmarks in your Web browser, but it’s also something that you can do in a Google Docs document. In …
How to Stop Sharing a Google Docs File
The ability to easily share files with other users is one of the more useful features of Google Docs. aside from its many capabilities and …
How to Reduce Header Size in Google Docs
Is your header taking up too much space in your document? Much like the margins around your document, this can be a problem if you …
How to Export to the EPUB Format from Google Docs
There are many different file types that you can choose from when you are making a document. Some of the more common ones include .txt …
How to Stop Converting to Fractions on Google Docs
If you often need to type numbers or fractions in your documents, you might have noticed that sometimes they get converted to a different style. …
How to Get Columns of Equal Width in a Google Docs Table
When you first add a table to Google Docs, it’s possible that you will be happy with the number of columns, rows, and overall appearance …
How to Invite Someone to View a Google Docs File by Email
When you are creating or editing a document in Google Docs there is a good possibility that you will need to let someone else see …
How to Rename a Document Version in Google Docs
The version history in Google Docs is really useful for undoing a lot of changes or reversing a major edit. But there can be a …
How to Remove Text Highlighting in Google Docs
Some people have developed their own habits and methods of creating and editing documents. One common technique, especially when working with a group, is to …
How to Switch Between Viewing Modes in Google Docs
The way your document looks can be affected by a lot of settings, such as the page orientation. But the way that your document looks …
How to Convert Uploaded Files to Google Docs Editor Format
Google Drive is a great place to keep the files that you want to back up or use on another computer. If some of those …
How to Run Spell Check in Google Docs
When you create a document that will be scrutinized for school or work, you might focus on the content and ensure that you have done …
How to Change the Page Color in Google Docs
There are many ways that you can modify the appearance of your document in the Google Docs application, but perhaps the biggest change that you …
How to Save a Google Docs File as a PDF
PDF files are a great way to share files if you are concerned that someone’s computer might render the appearance of the file differently on …
How to Disable Google Docs Sync
Your Google Drive account has a feature where you can store files on your computer. This enables you to edit them offline, then sync them …
How to Turn Off Smart Quotes in Google Docs
Google Docs has its own type of quotation marks, but it makes a lot of people wonder “why are my quotation marks dots?” If this …
How to Change Font Size in Google Docs for an Entire Document
When you create a new document in Google Docs it is going to use the default font size that is currently set. If you’ve never …
How to Add a Second Column to a Document in Google Docs
You can add a second column in a Google document by clicking the Format tab at the top of the window, choosing Columns, then clicking …
How to Insert a Page Count in Google Docs
Adding page numbers to your document header or footer is useful for several reasons, and having those page numbers is often a requirement for different …
How to Add a Header in Google Docs
The header section of a document is a good place to put important information, such as the author’s name, the title of the document, or …
How to Crop an Image in Google Docs
Pictures can be an important part of a document, but often a picture that you want to use will need some editing before it is …
Google Docs Spreadsheet Searching
Locating data in a file, particularly a large spreadsheet file that contains multiple sheets and thousands of lines of data on each sheet, can be …