A web-based file synchronization and cloud storage service from Google.
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Fill a Google Drive Document from Google Drive Spreadsheet
I would like to have a template document and fill some fields with data from a spreadsheet, for example changing the id or name of an entity in the template and automatically the document updates all ...
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Copy draw.io diagram into google docs file
is it possible to copy a drawing created with Draw.io app (integrated with Drive) into a Google Doc?
I managed to export the draw.io file as png and then pasting it inside the Google Doc, but it ...
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Is there a way to see how many times other users have viewed a shared item on Google Drive?
Does anybody know if there is a way to see how many times other users have viewed a shared item on Google Drive?
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How do I add watermark/background image in Google Docs?
How can I add a watermark or a background image in Google Docs?
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How to revoke “can edit” from google forms
I created a form in Google Drive that I intend to share, but for some reason, I can't revoke the "can edit" for collaborators.
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Does anyone have an idea why is that?
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Google Apps Script UrlFetchApp and password protected pages
I'd like to be able to use Google Spreadsheets to login to my registart and automatically list into rows the current name server and email settings of all my sites, rather than use the heinously ...
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Monthly reports
I am trying to write an equation that updates and calculates a new cell on the first of every month. I have 12 tabs and every tab has a monthly goal. I would like the summary tab to be a current total ...
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How can I share an entire Google Drive account's contents as a folder in another account's Drive?
I have multiple Google Accounts: one personal, one for a business I run, another at a non-profit I work at. Since I can only sign into Drive as one user for the purposes of the desktop syncing app (on ...
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Find out when a Google document was shared
In Google Docs, is there any way to find out exactly when a document was shared with somebody that I created and shared? This would be useful, at least for me, in finding out exactly when a document ...
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How to change the default styling of hyperlinks in Google Docs [duplicate]
I am working on converting my business's default Word templates to Google Docs. I have figured out how to change almost everything to look exactly the same as in Word except for being able to set the ...
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“Anonymous Animals” in Google Drive: for not-yet-accessed shared file?
I recently used Google Drive to share a file with Anyone with the link ("Anyone who has the link can access. No sign-in required."), but did not yet distribute the link to anyone. Thus, I cannot ...
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What manual style settings can I use for block quotes in Google Drive (gdocs)?
I know that Google Drive no longer has a standard block quote style in its built in menu.
What manual styles can one apply that would convey that what's being read is a block quote?
Changing to a ...
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How to zip two columns together in a Google Spreadsheet [duplicate]
For example columns are setup as:
A | B
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1 | a
2 | b
3 | c
4 | d
5 | e
I want to be able to make column C be like this:
C
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1
2
3
4
5
a
b
c
d
e
via formula. The two columns ...
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Specify Exact Size in Google Docs
Is it possible to set an exact document size in Google Docs? I am specifically using Google Drawing.
I cannot find any options or ways to do this.
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How to upload a file into Google Docs, given a URL
I want to edit a web document that I see open in my browser. What can I do? I have discovered that I can use the viewer, like this: ...
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Google Docs table of contents links are wrong in PDF
Me and my school partner use Google Docs for our school reports so we can write in the same document at the same time. Works fine.
We normally download the report as a PDF and hand it in. Today when ...
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Users are not notified by email about a new document
I have already shared a folder in Google docs across multiple users.
I create additional docs under the shared folder.
But the shared users don't get an email notification unless we add them again as ...
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How to remove all collaborators under a certain folder
We have several folders / files under Google docs.
folderA contains [fileA1, fileA2, fileA3]
folderB contains [fileB1, fileB2]
Currently we have several collaborators for different files under ...
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Downloading multiple individual files from Google Drive?
I quite often download multiple files from Google Drive at the same time. However, when I do this, it seems to force me to bundle them in a one .zip file, and download them together, which means I ...
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In Google Drive, how to search something in a Spreadsheet while using Android Tablet?
I have a 1000 rows Google Spreadsheet in my Google Drive and using the Google Drive app on my Nexus tablet. I can't perform a search or use Ctrl+F option.
Any ideas or alternative ways to achieve ...
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How do I migrate Google Drive from 'Google Apps for Business' account to a personal Google Drive account
I want to migrate Google Drive from a 'Google Apps for Business' account to a personal Google Drive account, as my company has decided to move to office365+sharepoint, and close down the Google Apps ...
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Is there any way to link to a Google Presentation and if using iOS have it open in Google Drive app?
We have some sites that want link to various presentation's, idealy our staff should click on a link and be able to present it.
We have linked to the presentation but it opens in the mobile web view. ...
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how to put in a column how time person worked date by date per month
in this file i have in "foglio 2" column B every date worked for every person... i would like to take for every month the date the person worked. for example person "marco" and in "jauary" column ...
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Google Docs doesn't do copy/paste and requires me to install Google Drive
Today I've got this message, when tried to copy data from my Google Docs spreadsheet:
It says I can't use copy/paste if I don't install the Google Drive app. It seems this message is bound to ...
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Google Docs spreadsheets: how to specify entire sheet as range?
The best workaround I have found so far is:
worksheet_name!$A$1:$YY
but ideally I would like to be able to simply write, e.g.:
worksheet_name!
So, does anyone know: is there a syntax for ...
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Applying new custom heading styles to Google Drive documents
How do I apply newly changed heading styles to selected (or at least one at a time) existing documents?
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?
I love Google Docs. I write notes, essays, correspondences, invoices, journal entries, business ideas, planning documents- everything on there.
I also love the markdown format. I'm a programmer so ...
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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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Google Sites: File upload to Google Drive
I would like to use Google Sites to create a web site, where users can upload files. These uploaded files are stored at Google Drive, and data about the file is stored in a Google spreadsheet.
Are ...
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Is there a way for me to effectively back up my Google Drive contents locally?
Is there is a way for me to copy/back up me Google Drive contents to my local machine?
Ideally, the solution would have these features (in order of priority):
Runs on Linux in a headless ...
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Google drive spreadsheet refuses to leave out commas
On the spreadsheet in question there is a column that contains plain numbers in a particular sequence. As an example: 3040513, 3050513, 3060513 etc.
Sometimes when typing in the next sequenced number ...
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Copy image from Google Doc to Google Doc
I have two Google docs. In one I have an image. I want to copy that image to the other Google doc. I know it sounds surprising and ridiculous, but I have no problem copy and pasting from word or ...
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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 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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Does Google Drive upload the entire file or only the delta for a minor change?
I have a big PDF file (about 50 MB) on my PC which is associated with Google Drive. If i make some changes to the file by adding some highlighting and notes, does Google Drive upload the entire 50 MB ...
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How can I compare my local folder to the Google Drive Copy?
I'm having wierd stuff happen where my local copy of my Google Drive folders seems out of sync (despite Gdrive saying it's sync'd) for example, the folder names are different. And changing one doesn't ...
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Google Drive direct download for big files
I am trying In Google Drive, how can you link directly to "Download" a zip file and not view the contents? but it does not work. I am not sure on how to repeat the question. It downloads a ...
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Is there a way to save and open “workspaces” in Google Drive?
When I'm about to work on Project Foo, I want to open all documents and spreadsheets related to Project Foo with one click of a link. Is it possible to set up such a link? (Does Google Drive have a ...
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Stop content from making cell two lines
In Excel if you have a long piece of text like a URL in a cell you can stop the cell from becoming a double-line cell and messing up the rest of your layout.
It does this by just clipping the info ...
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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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Merging document from other account to my google drive
I want to add a document to my google drive(from some other person) that won't be edited by me.
I always want to have the latest revision of that document on my drive. Since its a big technical ...
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Share individual copies of a Google spreadsheet
I created a Google Spreadsheet file which I want to share with my coworkers so each one has his own copy. So far the only way I found is to share the file, however these doesn't work for me because ...
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Conditional formatting color gradient in Google Spreadsheet
A few friends and myself have created a Google Spreadsheet document where we are keeping track of virtual item sales. One column has costs, one column has income one has profit, and a fourth has a ...
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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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lock sheet from external viewers but let the view the rest of the spreadsheet - google docs
Ive got a multi sheet, spreadsheet that i want to give out to clients so that they can write in their comment directly into my spreadsheet.
There is nothing i don't want them see in the spreadsheet, ...
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Reference data from another 'spreadsheet' in google docs / drive [duplicate]
Is there a way i can reference data from another google spreadsheet in google docs / drive ?
ie. spreadsheet-A, sheet 1, column A is a dynamic reference of spreadsheet-B, sheet 1, column E
Im not ...
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Editing Microsoft Word Documents in Google Drive
So, I installed "Google Drive for PC" and created an MS Word Doc in the drive folder. I understand that I can edit this word doc from any PC where I have set up and synced my docs using "Google Drive ...
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How can I recursively set ownership of Google Drive files and folders?
We recently moved from Dropbox to Google Drive for our whole company and I used one user account to move everything into Google Drive. Now most/all of the file/folders are owned by one account. The ...
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Google Drive Public Folder Dropbox
Is it possible within a google drive domain to have a shared folder with read/write permissions but not delete permissions that would copy a file that is "shared" with that folder instead of it being ...
