Google Documents is a tool by Google Drive to create word documents on the web.
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Google Docs syntax highlight
Is there way to switch on syntax highlighting in Google Docs? Personally I use it for editing and collaborating C++ files, but PHP or SQL syntax highlighting also would be interesting.
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How do I add new styles to Google docs?
Google docs has a nice set of styles such as normal text and header 1.
How do I add my own? I want to add a style called "code" for text that is programming code.
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Header numbering in Google Docs
Is there a way to automatically number headings in Google Docs?
It used to be possible with CSS but this feature isn't supported anymore in the new Google Docs version.
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Is Google Docs' Revision History a stable long-term audit trail?
Are all our changes logged, safe, saved, secure and downloadable? Has Google Docs committed to it all being seeable, shareable, protected and preserved?
Remembering what was said is important. I ...
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How to change measuring units in Google Docs?
In a Google Docs document, I would like to be able to specify the page margins (File → Page Setup) in millimeters instead of inches.
Is it possible to switch between imperial and metric units?
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Can I make columns in a Google document?
I am using Google Docs and have a document file. I would like to add columns within this, and was wondering if that is possible. I can't find how to do it internally.
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How to center a table in Google Docs?
Centering data within a table cell or cells in Google Docs is straightforward and easy (highlight and center).
But how to center an entire table?
This should be easy, but it isn't. I can't for the ...
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Google Docs, make a single page landscape
I have a really large table and I need to add it to a portrait document. Is there any way to make a single page landscape in Google Docs? In word you could add a "Section break" and do that. I hope ...
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How do I create pull quotes in Google Docs?
Can I install an app to make pull quotes in Google Drive? Or can I somehow create them using clever tricks?
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How do I convert a Microsoft Word document to Google Docs format without having to download and reupload again?
I currently have several Microsoft Word documents that are sitting on my Google Drive and was uploaded over the past few months. I understand that it is possible to convert Microsoft Word documents to ...
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Can I install custom fonts in Google Docs
I want to know if I can use my custom fonts in Google Docs or any other Google Drive products.
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In Google Docs, how can I search for paragraph marks?
In MS Word, I do a search for ^p
Is there a similar search string that I could use in Google Docs to find paragraph marks?
I do that kind of search, by the way, to replace 3 paragraph marks with 2.
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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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Reduce font size in Google Documents
I created a document with Google Docs. Now I want to reduce the fontsize by 1pt. There are several fontsizes in the documents, so I can't just apply a different size to the whole document.
In MS ...
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Can I print the Print Date or Save Date in Google Documents?
I've created a word processing document that will be used by many people (a style sheet for writers), and will also be updated periodically. I suspect that well have some who print the document out ...
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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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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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Save a link to create new document in Google Docs
Is it possible to bookmark a link that, when chosen, will automatically open up new document (a word processing document in this case) in Google Documents even if I don't have GD open at the time? ...
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How to view the parent folder of a Google Document?
Often I have the direct link to a Google Document (mine or an organizational shared one) and want to find documents that are stored within the same folder. To do so, I would need to determine the ...
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Is there a way to send a document to google docs instead of downloading it to your drive?
I want to send a document to google docs instead of downloading it to my pc and then uploading it to google docs. I'm using chrome, is there an easy way to do it?
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How do I mail merge from Google Spreadsheet to a Google Document?
With Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, it is easy to merge rows from a spreadsheet into pages in a Word file. This was traditionally used to make paper mailings. How can I do the same with Google ...
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Google docs document in Hebrew and English?
Is there any way to have Hebrew and English in the same document in Google Docs?
So far, everything I have found about multiple languages seems to assume that you want the user interface (menus, etc) ...
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How to change the default style of text links in Google Docs
I want to format the default style for text links—currently the color is blue & are underlined.
Is this possible? And if yes, how can I do it?
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Google Docs: table of contents & exporting as PDF
I have a google document in which I used the built-in "generate table of contents" function to add a table of contents. It works perfectly in the browser/online.
But my problem came after I exported ...
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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 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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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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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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Changing ownership of Google Documents
The rules around transferring ownership of a Google Document to another user appear to have recently changed, so I'd like some clear answers around what is and isn't possible.
My testing indicates ...
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private templates in google drive
In google drive you can right click on a document and hit "submit to template gallery" when you go through to there you can submit your template, but that makes it public on the web so any one can ...
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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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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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Google drive: how to recover shared with me files? [duplicate]
I accidently deleted files from a folder that is shared with me.
I can't find these files in the Trash. Is there a way to recover them?
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Opening .XLXS file in Google Docs
I can't seem to figure it out. I thought Google Docs supported all the doc file extensions... Was I wrong?
In any case, how can I convert it to an extension Google Docs support? Without downloading ...
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Submitting bugs and enhancement requests to Google Documents webapp
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Does Google provide a public bug tracking system, issue tracking
system, or enhancement tracking system (similar to, say,
Bugzilla) into which their users could submit reports to actual
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Keep indentation in Google Docs
In Google Docs, is it possible to preserve the indentation depth of text that is being typed (so that tab characters won't need to be typed repetitively at every line)? I'm trying to create a list ...
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How does Google Drive handle a name conflict when you copy or move a file?
If I is the web interface in Google Docs to copy MyFile.txt into a G Folder that already has MyFile.txt what happens in these scenarios?
The file contents are the same
The file contents are ...
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How to disable highlighting commented text in Google Docs?
Any time you add a comment in Google Docs (Google Drive), the text selected becomes highlighted:
If you don't select any text, you either will not be able to leave a comment or the nearest word ...
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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 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 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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How can I merge horizontally three cells in google docs? [duplicate]
I want merge (remove the separation lines between them) three cells horizontally in google doc.
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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 ...
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In copy/paste, Google Docs says “These actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use Ctrl C” etc?
When selecting copy/paste from the right-click menu, why does Google Docs pop up a dialog to say "Copying and Pasting in Google Docs", with the message "These actions are unavailable via the Edit ...
