Google Documents is a tool by Google Drive to create word documents on the web.
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Change background color of single page in Google Document
I would like to know how to change background color of single page in a Google Document. I want to make the Cover Page attractive.
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Can I prevent Google from tracking which links I follow in downloaded PDFs?
I want to create a PDF document using Google Docs/Drive that includes links, but without Google tracking clicks on those links.
Downloading a Google Drive document (File > Download as) in any other ...
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How to remove automatical negative indent from Google Documents?
When I write a paragraph in Google Documents, they get a very distinctive negative indent on the first line. I don't want that. I want my paragraphs to have no indent at all.
How do I get that?
Here ...
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How to move a column in Google Docs Document?
I know how to do this in Google Docs Spreadsheet, but it seems there's no data moving support for tables in Documents at all. (I can't even select in columns.)
Does anyone know how to do it?
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Why does Google document lock itself?
I use Ubuntu 11. When I open or create a Google document (.doc), I can't edit it but after a while I can. When I open it, it's "locked" and the keystrokes don't react. Anyone else seen this strange ...
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Google Documents bullet list depth
I have a very long bullet list with a lot of depth to the point that it gets very close to the far right of the page. Then I can no longer add any more bullets to the right. I tried to increase the ...
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How can I share an entire Google Drive account's contents as a folder in another Drive user's drive?
For example, I have a Google Drive account for my business and a Google Drive account for myself.
Some of the folders in both accounts have the same names (eg, accounts, pics, documents etc), which ...
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How do you join two tables together in Google Drive?
It used to be that you could edit HTML and join your tables. I have about a hundred dynamic documents with tables that need to be joined and split routinely. Each of these tables has seven columns and ...
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Spell checker for Google Docs for languages other than English
Recently I became a huge fan of Google Docs despite all the deficiencies, but there's one thing that really repels me from writing anything in language other than English, namely poor spell checker. ...
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How can I create a online collaborative document where I only allow certain users to edit certain sections?
So I want to create a online document that can be shared with many different users but I only want those users to be able to edit and view certain sections. The hard part is I want it all to feed one ...
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Limitation of participants Google docs
I would like to create a registration form for a serie of lectures participants could sign up for. However, depending on the lectures, there is a different limitation of numbers of participants that ...
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How to add structured numbered outlines in Google Docs?
I'm new to using Google Docs as a word processor so maybe I'm missing something simple. I tried importing a word doc into Google Docs and it lost a lot of formatting. It turned my structured outline ...
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Problem in creating a radio button with description in Google Document
I'm creating a Google Document which consists of some set of questions. Can any one say how to create a question with radio buttons Yes or No, if I click on No, then description column should appear ...
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hyperlink to google document paragraph that works in mobilebasic mode
We can link to a paragraph in a google document like this (sample source):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b4Jq5UtuhzIG-NuPJiYh6ojR8GtL7dRKyAhcWdnUPSI/edit?pli=1#heading=h.hmr6expwb2i7
But ...
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copy google document table of contents links into google spreadsheet cells
I have a large google document where each table of contents item links to the header of a food recipe further down in the document.
How do I copy each TOC link+title into cells in a google ...
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How can I have replies to an email sent to (appended to) a Google Doc?
I'm sending out a questionnaire to folks in an organization.
I'd like the results to be in a single document. But if I use Survey Monkey they'll each have to enter their name (and preferably their ...
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Automatic index of google doc footnotes?
Is there a way to get all footnotes summarized at the end of a google document?
I mean automatically updated, so that when you add a footnote, it will automatically appear in an index.
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Google spreadsheet revision history — too much detail
For word processing, Google Docs revision history is great.
However, for some of my spreadsheets, something isn't working right:
Revisions are not grouped together, multiple for each minute.
"Show ...
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Word docs on password-protected site viewed via Google Docs displays markup of login page
I often have to look at Word documents on my university's student portal, which is behind a login page. If I try to view a Word document using Google Docs in Chrome, the HTML markup of the login page ...
