A web-based file synchronization and cloud storage service from Google.
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How can I get Google Docs to stop formatting a form response as a date?
I have a Google form with a question that contains a drop-down box with the following values:
Fewer than 10
11-25
26-50
More than 50
If the user selects "11-25", Google Docs renders the response ...
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Is there a direct download links for files on Google Drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
In Google Drive, how can you link directly to “Download” a zip file and not view the contents?
I want to store several files on Google Drive that later will need to be ...
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Is Google Drive invitation only?
When I go to drive.google.com, I see information about this service and message:
Your Google Drive is not ready yet
with button Notify me.
My question is: do I need to get an invitation from ...
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How can I add a shortcut on my desktop to a document in Google Docs?
I would like to have a shortcut on my desktop to a excel document in Google Docs?
How can I create a shortcut (icon) like this? I use Google Chrome as web browser.
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How do I Log out of Google Accounts, one at a time?
I volunteer for many organizations, earning me several google accounts to manage. The Multiple account sign-in feature built into google is wonderful, except when I click Sign out, its signs out of ...
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Fixed text size in Google Docs?
Hi all I'm using Google Docs and usually when I paste text into the document the text size varies.
I can select all and set the font size, but this slowly gets annoying,
So I was wondering is there ...
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Create an index with hyperlinks in Google Docs
Is there a way to create an index in Google Docs like you would in a wiki?
I have huge documents with many sections. I currently use block quotes to separate those sections and keep things in ...
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Display Sheet Name in Google Spreadsheet
Is there any way to display a sheet name as the result of a function in a google doc spreadsheet (exactly like this question, except in gspread)?
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Create new folder in Google Docs with the new theme
So I got upgraded to the newest theme in Google Docs (where all of the items are in the center pane). I really like the folders, and I have had some setup before these improvements were added. Now, ...
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Why can't I view Google Docs documents with my Google Apps account?
When I try to view a public document (example found on the net) with my Google Apps account I get this screen:
Clicking on the button will send an email to whoever created it, and then I have to ...
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Change paragraph spacing
I would like to change the amount of space that is added when I do "format -> Line spacing -> Add space before paragraph". It is possible to change this in Microsoft Word. Is there a way to do this in ...
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How do I use Google Web Fonts for Google Documents?
A number of 2010 blog posts from Google seems to imply this is possible, but I can't seem to move fonts from Web Fonts to Google Documents. Is it even doable?
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Format credit card numbers as four digit blocks in Google Spreadsheets
I have this credit card number in a Google Docs spreadsheet of the following format:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
How can I make it display like XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX or XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX where they're in ...
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1answer
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Finding the changes within a Google Doc's revision
I can use the revision history within a Google Doc to see who made what changes, but I have to search through the entire document to see which sections were touched by each change. Is there any way to ...
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Encryption for Google Documents
How can I encrypt the HTTP messages that implement the Google Documents web application?
I am concerned about the security risk of editing and storing private documents on Google Documents.
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How can I sync Evernote with Google Docs (Google Drive)?
I prefer to create notes in Evernote, but people I work with like editing them in Google Docs (now called Google Drive).
Is there a way to sync us up so we can each use our preferred app to edit the ...
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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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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 can I create custom keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs?
When studying biology and mechanisms, it's very useful to take notes with arrows that illustrate a stepwise process: A --> B --> C and up/down arrows to denote increase/decrease. This is very ...
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Adding Pagenumbers to Google Drive Presentation?
Can someone tell me how can I add page numbers to my Google Drive Presentation?
I've read that it should be under "Insert" but there's nothing even remotely relevant there. Here’s a screenshot:
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Refuse to be owner of a Google Drive document
Sometimes I get email notifications that a friend has shared a document with me. But I don't want to be part owner.
How can I refuse to be the document's owner? Can I refuse when someone is trying to ...
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How to direct a Comment in a Google Doc to a particular user (who is sharing the Doc)?
Is there an easy way to direct a Comment I make in a Google Doc to a parciular particular person it's shared with?
I.e., I'm sharing MyDoc with 3 people. I have several questions I've entered as ...
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Is there any way to transfer files from internet website to Google Docs directly?
Suppose I have the file www.abc.com/temp.zip.
Can I directly transfer it to Google Docs without downloading to the computer first?
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Google Documents - How to add a question which have multiple choice with single selection?
I am creating a Google Doc Form for company's internal survey.
Currently there are 7 question types
Text
Paragraph text
Multiple choice
Checkboxes
Choose from a list
Scale
Grid
I am looking to ...
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Is it possible to sync Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac with Google Docs ?
Is it possible to sync Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac with Google Docs?
If so, how?
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How to upload a new revision / version to an existing word document in google docs
How to upload a new revision / version to an existing word document in google docs. I am able to see an "Import a new version" for a spreadsheet (xlsx) but not for a word file (docx). Any pointers?
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Google Docs brings Firefox to a grinding halt
I've found recently that when I open a not-too-large* spreadsheet in Google Docs, within about 5 minutes of leaving it in a background tab, Firefox starts hogging 100% processor time. Closing the main ...
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What are the differences between Office Web Apps and Google Docs?
It's unclear to me what the difference is between Microsoft's Office Web Apps and Google Docs. Are they at all similar - or is it just marketing hype from Microsoft. How would I decide which to use ...
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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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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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Is it possible to see the owner of a public Google Doc?
If I create a public Google Doc that anyone can edit who has the URL, will my google id or name or anything else be publicly viewable?
I tried it and I didn't see anything about the owner in another ...
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Is there any way to play MP3 files in Google docs
I have uploaded MP3 files in my google Docs. Can I play them there? Because they allow video files so I was thinking if they allow streaming mp3 files as well.
If not, is there any way that I can ...
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How can I create a formula in Google Docs that uses a date format
How do I subtract days from a cell that has dates?
For example, what's a formula that will take 3/2/2011 and return this value 2/28/2011?
Is this possible in Google Docs?
Thanks.
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Google Docs: Is there any way to tell if people have opened a document that you have shared on Google Docs?
I sent out links (read-only) to a number of people and am curious if there is a way to see whether people are actually going out and viewing that document.
I understand it likely won't have names ...
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Cross-reference sheets on Google Docs Spreadsheet
I can just do B12 to refere a field on the same sheet I'm working on, but how do I reference B12 on another sheet?
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In Google Docs Spreadsheet in List View, can you add rows to the bottom instead of the top?
I've been using the Google Docs Spreadsheet in List View (View->List View on the menubar) as I have a fixed number of columns in my spreadsheet.
I'd like to add new rows to the end of the List ...
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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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Is it possible to prove that a document was shared at a given time?
If I look at my Google drive, I can see all the documents I have access to in the "Activity" section.
If someone shares a document with me I can see when someone last made changes to the doc.
...
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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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Google Docs - a formula that does Excel “countifs” function involving dates
I have a Google spreadsheet in which multiple users are tracking a list of dates and class names (math, reading, writing, etc). On a separate sheet in the same document, I want to be able to give a ...
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1answer
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Single mandatory question with multiple “I accept condition X” (checkboxes?) in a Google Docs Form?
I have a form with several fields (name, a URL, etc.) that's part of an approval request process. I'd like to have a question with several checkboxes which all must be checked before a form can be ...
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Google Apps Scripts API for Google Docs Table
If we take a look at Google Apps Script we can see API related to just about everything except Google Docs Fusion Tables that are supposed to be some sort of lightweight database tables.
Can anybody ...
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332 views
Storing photos and videos privately with Google
I am interested in purchasing extra Google storage to use in storing mainly photos and videos.
Is it possible to keep everything I store private with Picasa or Google Docs?
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Why in Google products like Docs or Talk, my username listed instead of the full name?
For example in Google Docs others see me like this:
Same in Gmail Chat, my friends see my username in the list, instead of my name.
I've checked my account settings, and the profile, all seems to ...
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How to ensure that the owner of a Google Doc does not remove the document?
I often use Google Docs for collaboration with a range of parties. My question is therefore regarding information safety. In the cases where I am not the owner of a document, how can I ensure that the ...
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1answer
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Automatically changing text to hyperlinks in Google Docs
Is it possible to set up auto-correct in Google Docs so that it will automatically change a word to a hyperlink to said word?
For example, I type:
facebook
What I want is for the word to then ...
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How do I search for keywords in Google Docs, and see the results with context?
I have many documents stored on Google Docs as text or spreadsheets.
In many of them I put little "todo: something notes"
I would like to search though them and see a list somewhere
Is that ...
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Can I auto archive my Google Docs spreadsheet?
We are using Google Docs spreadsheet for call logs, which is shared with more than 20 users and we all add entries simultaneously.
I would like to know if there is any feature to automatically ...
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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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Make 'All Items' my default location in Google Docs
I'd like to make 'All Items' my default location when I load up Google Docs instead of 'Home'. Clicking to remove the 'Home' label or having to navigate to 'All Items' every single time I want to ...
