A web-based file synchronization and cloud storage service from Google.
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Is there a way to link E-mails from Google Docs/Spreadsheets?
I'm trying to find a way to link to an e-mail from my Google Spreadsheet. We use our spreadsheet as a way to track bugs, issues, to-dos, and milestone timelines (we've tried other apps, this works ...
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Free UML and Mind Map diagram tool with Google Drive integration [closed]
Could anyone recommend a no limitations free Unified Modeling Language (and general mind mapping) diagram tool with Google Drive integration?
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Google Docs: Recently Revised Document Not Showing in Front Page
A document that I revise frequently is not showing up on the front page. When I search for it, it comes up. But it usually appears in the top two or three of my document list, as I have it sorted by ...
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1answer
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How to view or edit Google Spreadsheet offline?
I have followed the instructions to setup Offline mode access to Google Drive and it worked well. Surprisingly Google Spreadsheets do not open on offline mode, giving an "internal error", however can ...
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159 views
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 you remove an app from Google Drive?
A while ago, I installed DriveTunes to play music from Google Drive. Now, it annoys me.
I've already:
removed the Chrome extension
revoked DriveTunes access to my files
revoked DriveTunes ...
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How to make a query with Google Spreadsheet, that checks for a date
I have a range that goes from B4:H124. All the cells in column B are dates. I would like to retrieve the data from a row (B:H), where the DATE equals to the content of a specific cell, lets say Q4.
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2answers
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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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Ignore certain file types in Google Drive
Is it possible to exclude certain types of files in a folder in Google Drive? E.g. say I wanted to upload everything, except all .txt files; like *.txt in a .gitignore file. Is there any way to do ...
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1answer
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One file, multiple folders, via Google Drive on PC
This question tells how to use the Google Drive web interface to place one file in multiple folders. Is there a way to achieve that effect by manipulating the files in a Google-Drive-synchronized ...
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1answer
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How to easily select multiple cells in Google Spreadsheets?
How do I select multiple cells in Google Spreadsheets (non related cells, other cells between them)? In MS Excel I just press Ctrl and click on all the cells, in Google Spreadsheets it doesn't work. ...
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Google docs date in format 'dd/MM/yy'
Is there any way to use date in format dd/MM/yy ? The Google docs support only MM/dd/yy and it cause us problems to use it (we can't sort the date column).
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Allow People to View/Edit Google Docs without a Google Account
Is there any way I can allow someone who does not has a Google Account to view/edit my Google Docs?
Note that I am not saying I want to allow everyone to edit/view the documents. I want only to allow ...
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0answers
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How can I see statistics for a Google Drive Presentation
Specifically, I'd like to see the amount of visits that it gets and the geographic region. Is that possible at all? Searching in Google it looks like it was possible at some point but for the life of ...
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1answer
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Create input field in Google Docs form allowing only images
I need to make a Google Doc form, in which the users need to upload an image. Is it possible to do so using Google Docs form? If yes, then how?
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1answer
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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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Size and MD5 hash of files on Google Drive
According to the Google Drive SDK, the size and MD5 hash of files is available through the API. Each resource (file) has an md5Checksum and a fileSize:
md5Checksum (string): An MD5 checksum for ...
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2answers
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Which versions of the PDF standard does Google Docs support?
What the title says. I know PDFs exported from Google Docs are version 1.4, but which versions does it support when viewing PDFs?
I'm asking because I'm having problems with PDFs generated with the ...
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Is it possible to see the date/time for a Google Drive folder for the most recent add/modify/delete time/date of something within it?
Is it possible to see the date/time of the item that was most recently changed within a Google Drive folder, without having to find that item within the folder first?
When browsing Google Drive in a ...
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1answer
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Backup Google Drive to Dropbox
I want to...
automatically perform a one way sync from Google Drive to Dropbox
convert the files to a format supported by LibreOffice or HTML during the synchronization. But any non proprietary and ...
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1answer
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Can I convert a Google Doc to a MS Word document?
How can I convert a Google Doc to MS Word document?
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0answers
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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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0answers
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Wrong Google Drive Account
I have the wrong Google Drive account linked to my Trello; how do I correct this?
The email address I use to login is the correct email for Google Drive, but the files are not showing when I want to ...
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3answers
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Google Apps for Business Docs Backup
Is there a way to backup the entire organisations documents locally?
We aren't so much worried about data loss as we are access: what happens if our internet connection goes down? (and it has in the ...
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1answer
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How can I link 2 cells in Google Docs in the same document, on the same spreadsheet?
How can I link 2 cells in Google Docs in the same document, on the same spreadsheet?
I have a headings and every time I have to scroll down to the one I need. Can I create some kind of "header" on ...
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2answers
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How can I change the default styles for Google Docs?
For a Document ( Word-like) in Google Docs, I want to be able to change the font size, familiy and spacings for the built-in in styles. How can I do that?
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1answer
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How do I change my nickname or display name on Google Docs?
How do I set a different display name to show on in the revision history of a Google Docs document?
When I look at the revision history of a shared document that I've edited, all my edits are showing ...
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1answer
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How to make sharing in Google Docs actually work?
We're using a Google Apps domain where I work, and I have a strong suspection that it's not possible to share anything with other people unless I send them a link.
What I do:
I create a document
I ...
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1answer
314 views
Google Docs - Keyboard shortcut to correct a misspelled word?
In Google Docs, if a misspelled word is present in a document, a red underline is displayed under that word, as is typical in text-composition applications.
When the caret (insertion point) is ...
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1answer
426 views
Transferring data between Google Docs and Basecamp
How do I transfer data and files between Basecamp and Google Docs applications?
Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Google Docs is a free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, slide ...
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2answers
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Adding one Google Spreadsheet column to a string to dynamically create a URL in the next column
I have a spreadsheet of product id codes that I'd like to turn into links, and from everything I've read, the concat or concatenate functions in Google Docs should work for that, but so far everything ...
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2answers
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Parsing timestamp in Google spreadsheet with script
I have a spreadsheet with a form that timestamps every time the form is submitted. I'm writing a script to change the background color of the timestamped cell if it is more than 7 minutes after a ...
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0answers
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How to cancel Google Fusion Table importing data?
I have a document created using Google Fusion Table and when I tried to import an 8 kb csv file (File → Import More Rows), the screen was stuck at 0% importing, as shown below:
It has been ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to view documents created under a certain hierarchy
Is it possible to view documents created under a certain hierarchy.
e.g.
Company admin UserA creates FolderA/SubFolderA/DocumentA.pdf
Company admin UserA creates FolderB/SubFolderB/DocumentB.pdf
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1answer
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Share permissions set for a group is not effective if a new user is added to the group
Share permissions set for a group is not effective if a new user is added to the group.
I set permissions to DocA, DocB, DocC for GroupA consisting of users UserA, UserB.
If a new user UserC is added ...
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1answer
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How do I set edit permissions for other users while sharing a document
I share a Google doc with UserA, UserB, UserC.
I want administrators AdminA, AdminB or would preferably would like to have a group GroupA comprising the 2 administrators to have the ability to set ...
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How to lock a Google Document?
I would like to lock an important Document in Google Drive. So that modification I made in fly by mistakes don't get saved ? I am the owner of the document.
Is this possible ? or is there a feature ...
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0answers
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We are sharing corporate data, how to improve our Google Drive setup?
We have a corporate Google Apps account (paid), and we have a central user (I will call it CompanyArchive) that owns all of the documents that were on a network drive before we started using Google ...
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1answer
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How can I remove a subfolder from My Drive without removing it from my collaborators?
Somebody shared a folder with me.
I moved it into "My Drive" to sync it (I should have copied, but I did not know at the time).
Now I want to remove a subfolder of that folder from "My Drive". But ...
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1answer
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Web Clipboard Icon
I am working in google Docs and no longer have a web clipboard icon in the toolbar. In the past I always had it which enabled me to copy and paste within the google document I was working on and from ...
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Can you style Google Forms (from Google Apps)?
While Google makes themes available to style forms in Google Docs, there seems to be no provision for styling forms yourself.
I have a two-column layout and want the form on the right. There are ...
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1answer
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Keep formatting of text when pasting text from Google Docs to MailChimp
Is there a way of keeping the formatting of text when pasting text from Google Docs to MailChimp?
This is just for bold and italic formatting.
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0answers
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How to make google drive to index on “tags” attributes set by OS?
After moving my photos from Windows 7 to Google Drive and trying to search by keyword it looks like "tags" attribute is not fully used. I was able to search on Windows 7 and get all files with ...
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4answers
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Google Drive: copy a file with the web interface
I want to copy a file in my Google Drive using the web interface. Adding it to another folder seems to create a hard link rather than a file that can be changed independently of the original. There ...
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4answers
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Google Docs file upload limit
I am trying to load a 1.8 Mb .docx file into Google Docs and getting the following message:
"This file could not be imported because it is over the 1 MB limit."
I have no idea why this may be, ...
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2answers
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Getting hashes of Google Docs documents?
Although Google Docs documents seem to have a unique ID in the URL, I'm wondering if there is a way to get a hash (MD5, SHA1) of a document without downloading it again. Has anyone attempted something ...
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How to insert code in Google Drive documents
I use Google Drive Docs as my note taking tool and it is awesome since I can use it when I am offline, but I have a problem: I can't add source code in documents there. I know this question is ...
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2answers
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Download or Forward a PDF from Google Drive iPhone app
How do I forward or download a PDF from the Google Drive iPhone application?
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How to filter emails from Google Docs?
Emails from Google Docs are sent from the personal email address rather than from noreply address.
So when I receive a notification about that somebody has shared a document with me, I see ...
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How to delete a folder in Google Drive
I wanted to delete a folder in Google Drive and found myself figuring out how: no option to delete. See screen shot:
The support site clearly states that it is possible, with the trash bin: support ...
