Google Docs shares many of the more common features that you will find in Microsoft Word. One such feature is the ability to add a picture to your document. This picture can be added from a file on your computer, or from any of a number of locations online. If you need to put a […]
How to Get a Word Count for a Document in Google Docs
June 16, 2017 By
Last updated: January 29, 2019 Certain situations with documents will require you to reach a minimum word count. But when those word counts start getting higher, manually counting all of the words in a document can be both needlessly time-consuming and prone to error. Fortunately many word processing applications have tools that will give you […]
How to Add Page Numbers in Google Docs
June 15, 2017 By
Page numbers on a document are a crucial element for many schools and organizations. Documents can easily have their pages separated, which can make proper reassembly of that document quite difficult. You may be familiar with adding page numbers in Microsoft Word, but the interface in Google Docs is slightly different from Microsoft’s product. However, […]
How to Change to Landscape Orientation in Google Docs
June 7, 2017 By
The orientation of a document in Google Docs refers to the location of the long edge of the page, and is just one of the many formatting choices you can modify in the application. If the long edge of the page is on the left or right side of the document, then that is in […]
How to Open a CSV File in Google Docs
July 15, 2012 By
CSV files are something that you will frequently encounter if you handle a lot of data that originates from databases. It is generally one of the simpler file types to create, and it can be opened in a number of different applications. Because Google Docs (or Google Drive, if you have already converted over to […]
Copy a Row From One Sheet to Another in Google Docs
May 21, 2012 By
Data that you store in a spreadsheet on Google Docs can have value to you in other places than just that spreadsheet. Maybe you have a multi-sheet spreadsheet that requires the addition of that data, or maybe you are working on an entirely separate spreadsheet where that information might prove valuable. Regardless of the situation, […]
Google Docs Spreadsheet Searching
May 18, 2012 By
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 nightmarish if you attempt to do it manually. Luckily there is a Find and Replace tool in the Google Docs spreadsheet application that you can use to automate and expedite […]
How to Search Within Google Docs
May 16, 2012 By
Sometimes when you are writing a document you will find yourself needing to look up some additional fact, or locate another piece of data. Depending upon your Internet habits, this might involve opening a new tab, opening another Web browser window, or using the search function on the Start menu of your Windows 7 computer. […]
