7 Tricks and Hacks to Get the Most Out of Google Docs

 

Google Docs is a word processor that allows you to write or dictate text, add graphics and much more. It is hosted in the cloud, which is very useful because the material can be accessed from different devices.

 It is a service widely used by users today, without ban tasks may not know the available functions of this tool. Here, a basic tour for those who will take their first steps on this platform or for those who want to take advantage of the system.

 

1. Use templates in google docs

 When creating a document in Google Docs, you can choose to choose spreadsheets that have different formats preloaded.

 To use this option, you must be in Google Drive, choose "New" as you do every time you want to create a new file, then go to Google Docs or Google Documents and click where it says "From the template" and it will display a number of options to choose from.

2. Add graphics, drawings and images trick

This is very simple, just go to the "insert" option and choose the desired option. As will be seen, graphics, images, drawings, tables and links can be added, among other options.

3. Edit images from the document trick

To edit an image added to the feed document you have to select it and then go to the text that says "Image Options" in the unrivaled bar.

When doing so, the image will appear framed in blue and in the right margin you will see adjustment options to change the tone, brightness, level of transparency and contrast of tones.

 

4. Convert the document to PDF trick

Once the text is finished, you can choose to convert the file to PDF format risks of sharing it with other users. For this go to the File menu and there choose "Download as PDF". As you will see, in the feed menu there are many other options as well (rich text format, plain text, web page, and so forth.)

 

5. Access disconnected to tasks the documents trick

To write, edit and access documents offline in google docs, feed than go to File / Turn on offline file. Once this is done, a message will appear saying that the file is available disconnected.

Enabling this option in google docs will allow you to continue working on files even when you are offline. The changes will be saved in the system and when the connection is restored, all the modifications will be synchronized and will be seen on the web.

6. Retrieve other versions of documents trick

To view tasks the changes that were made to a document in google docs, and recover any of those previous feed versions, go to File/Version History/View version history.

In addition to being able to see what changes were made, it is possible to restore any of the previous editions of the file.

7. Voice dictation trick

Google Docs has a dictation option that can be used to dictate text as well as transcribe sound files. It is available in 100 languages.

 

To use this feed function on google docs, you have to go to Tools/Voice Dictation and a window will open where you just have to click to start speaking or play a sound.

In that window you must choose the language that will be used and then press on the microphone icon and start speaking or playing the sound.