Google Docs

  Google Docs

What is it? : Google Docs allows you to create and save documents online and import  documents from other applications

 Benefits:  Enhance your documents with images, links drawings and collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world. Export print and publish to the web 

How we use it: Docs is used to write the homework reports

Start by accessing google drive - drive.google.com

Hit New to create a new document

Then select Google Docs start a new document

Menus

File 

New- create a new doc

Open - Open doc from browsed location

Email - Email doc to person

Rename - Change Doc name

Move - Move to another folder/directory/location

Print - Send Doc to printer

Edit

Undo - Ctrl+Z key undo last changes

Redo - Ctrl+Y key repeat last change

Note: To select area of doc press and hold right mouse button and move mouse to area you want to select then release right mouse button

Cut - Cuts the selected text area into computers clipboard memory

Paste - Places clipboard text at location of cursor

Select All - Ctrl+A selects entire document

Find and Replace - Looks for word/phrase and will find it in document and if Replace with is populated will replace the found word with the new word entered

Text Operations

 

• Copy/Paste (Ctrl + C and Ctrl +V)

• Find/Replace (Ctrl + F)

Insert

Image - Allows you to insert image into doc

Table - creates a table for data

Chart - allows you to build a chart inside your doc

Headers and Footers - can be placed on each page of doc

Page Numbers - can be inserted on each page 

Format 

Text - Allows you to make select text Bold, Italic or increase font size or color

Formating Text 

• Font 

• FONT SIZE

• Font color

• BOLD

• italic 

• Underline

• highlight

Align & Indent - Allows you to Justify selected text (right, center, left) Indent selected text

Tools

Functions

 

• Spell Check

• Thesaurus