More Google Tips & Tricks

More Google Tips & Tricks

Synchronization

Make your Google Docs work with other tools too.
  1. Preview docs in Gmail: You can preview Google docs attachments in Gmail.

  2. Google Finance: Enter information from Google Finance into spreadsheets with this formula Syntax: =GoogleFinance("symbol"; "attribute").

  3. Sync with your server: To work offline, your documents will have to be synced to your server.

  4. Google Mobile: Use Google Mobile to access docs on your phone.

Tasks

These tasks, from printing to tracking tournaments, are examples of other ways you can use Google Docs.
  1. Print as a webpage: You can print your doc so that it displays as a web page.

  2. Insert mathematical equations: Insert Equation makes an equation editor dialog box appear to add an equation to your doc.

  3. GoogleTournament: Create brackets, and let Google automatically update data according to the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

  4. Enable offline access: You can install offline access for Google Docs to edit existing documents anywhere.

  5. Track analytics: Track visits to published documents.

  6. Update posts: You can republish posts that are already on your web page if you want to make edits and support an updated version.

Features and Tools

Make use of features and tools like Docs Translation or CSS Editing to customize your docs and make them work for you.
  1. Polyline: Draw shapes and lines in Google docs to make graphs, images and examples.

  2. Docs Translation: Find the docs translator under Tools.

  3. Snap to Guides: With this Edit feature, you can line up shapes in your doc automatically.

  4. Reference tools: Google docs comes with access to a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia that you can use within the document.

  5. CSS Editing: Change the display of your doc by manually plugging in your CSS text.

  6. HTML tags: Docs supports, or partially supports, some HTML tags, shown here.

Productivity Hacks

These hacks will make your Google Docs experience even more efficient and streamlined.
  1. Templates: Use Docs’ 300 templates to get started on different types of documents.

  2. Work offline: View and edit documents even when you don’t have access to an Internet connection.

  3. Create shortcuts: Create shortcuts and bookmarks for new documents, Google Docs home and more frequently visited pages.

  4. Save as different file types: Instead of converting docs to different file types, you can simply change it to HTML, RTF, PDG, ODT and more whenever you save it.

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