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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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Print document from a desktop application as PDF to Google Drive directly
In Google Chrome, when I need to save a web page or an online document as PDF to my Google Drive account, I choose 'Save to Google Drive' as a destination in the Print dialog box of Chrome.
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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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Why is google drive not working? [migrated]
Google drive is not working. When installing I get this error message which says the error code is 8bd0 if that helps.
It used to work but now after a power cycle it doesn't. What am I doing ...
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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 ...
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Adding my free Google Drive storage to my Gmail storage
I am running out of storage in my gmail account. However, I have 5GB of free space on my Google Drive. Is there a way I can store some of my emails (not only their attachments, but the complete email) ...
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Google Cloud Connect offline setup not working
I have found this offline setup for Google Cloud Connect (Google Drive's app), but it doesn't install the plugin actually to the Microsoft Office. Or am I missing to activate something, after ...
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Downloadable Setups for Google Drive Applications
Is there a page from where to download various Google Drive application setups?
I noticed various Google Drive apps allow online installations only. But the problem is at my workplace, there is a ...
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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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Can’t see background in Google Drive presentation viewer
I uploaded a PowerPoint presentation to Google Drive, but the Drive viewer does not show my background picture. How can I fix it?
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How to download all revisions of my files on Google Drive?
I have > 50 revisions of some files on my Google Drive, and now I want to download all of them onto my computer.
Going through them one by one is very painful; how can I download all of them at once?
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Some Google Drive Docs have error “This error has been reported to Google…”
For a few months, when I load some of my Google Drive wordprocessing docs, I get the Jacascript popup error in Chrome (latest version):
This error has been reported to Google and we'll look into ...
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How to protect table cells in Google Spreadsheets from myself (accidental edits)?
As in Microsoft Excel, I want to protect certain cells in Google Spreadsheet. This is possible, but asides from the fact that it is quite confusing to me, it doesn't seem possible to protect cells ...
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Mail-merge, Google-drive [closed]
Found a script that works excellently
How do I mail merge from Google Spreadsheet to a Google Document?
Anybody have anything that can be run directly from the google-drive ?
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Google Drive Form doesn't display on Google sites if not signed in on chrome
I have a site, hosted by google sites that includes a Spreadsheet Form from google drive.
Normally, the page loads, then a second or so later the form loads.
In the problem case the page loads, but ...
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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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Can I post a file / document directly to Google Drive thru email
Is there a way to send files directly to Google drive from Gmail.
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How to find out the total number of documents available in my drive
How to find out the total number of documents exposed via Google Docs.
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How do I disable Google Spreadsheet comment notifications?
I've got a shared document with a co-worker and they're adding comments. The system keeps sending me emails with every comment she adds and it's rather tiresome.
Google Support says there should be a ...
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Google Drive only apps account prevents emptying the trash
Since I cannot restrict the "Empty Trash" option in Google Drive for my Google Apps users would creating one account that is only used to setup as shared folders in drive work? Can I then give all ...
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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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Is there a link to launch Google Scratchpad instead of pop-up?
I installed Google's Scratchpad extension in Chrome.
I'm wondering if there is a way to launch it within the main window. I hate the way it opens as a popup.
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What is the better way to collect ordinal data for top three activities from a list
What might be the preferred way to post a list of 24 activities and then ask visitors to choose their 1st, 2nd & 3rd favorites? They were to provide a response: Why are you choosing this? What is ...
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How can I prevent users from downloading documents created in Google Drive?
I know I have the ability to prevent viewers from downloading documents which are not native to Google Drive (http://chromebytes.com/1717/prevent-viewers-from-downloading-google-docs-files) however ...
