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How can I get code syntax highlighting in Google Docs?
Google Docs launched "Code blocks" on December 14, 2022.
It is available to some accounts (depending on the pricing plan). It is not available to users with personal Google Accounts.
To ...
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How to replace dumb quotes with smart quotes in Google Docs
In Find and Replace, check the box for "Match using regular expressions."
To find all the starting quotes:
Find (?<=\s|^)\" and replace all with “
(This means "a straight ...
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Can I format the Google Docs Table of Contents to only include certain headers?
2023 update: Google has announced this feature in the Google Workspace Updates blog post dated March 20, 2023: Improvements to content organization in Google Docs
The blog introduces Include and ...
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How can I view the most recently created Google documents in my Google Drive?
That can be done from the side panel in Google Drive.
Select Recent and the files will be listed accordingly.
However, that will list all your files. I'm not certain that you can filter further to ...
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Inserted drawings blurry when compared to adjacent text in Google Docs
I was encountering this issue too till by chance before resizing the drawing in the document I selected the "Wrap text" option. With this option selected, I was able to resize the image ...
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Search only headers and/or only in outline of Google Docs
I use this workaround: If you add a table of contents (Insert > Table of contents) at the begining of the page, you can use the normal search bar of the document and look at the first matches to ...
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How to disable Emoji table in Google Docs
Tools > Preferences
uncheck "Insert emojis using the colon character"
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Duplicate a page
read on multiple websites that, in order to duplicate a page in Google Docs, you should go File / Make a Copy
But I'm pretty certain that duplicates the entire document
You are correct. If it is a ...
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Can a Google Doc share link URL be changed?
It was possible to reset the link in the older versions, but that feature seems to have been removed. You can, however, make a copy of the document, and that will get a new URL. Remove the old ...
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What happens when you share a Google Doc with a non-Google user? What do you have to do to make it work?
click Share and then enter a non-Gmail-address and uncheck "Notify user"
When you do that through the File > Share > Share with others dialog box, and the non-Gmail address is not ...
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How do I add a google doc to the Docs template gallery?
It looks like Google is no longer allowing people using consumer accounts, like those having a primary email address from gmail.com, to submit templates. This is only possible now with accounts from ...
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How do I make the number appear at the top of the line in a numbered list
Apologies if this is not exactly what you're looking for, but the closest I could come to this was by reducing the line spacing in the list and then adding a blank line after the bullet item, with the ...
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Can I link from a Google Sheet to a Google Doc heading?
In the Google Docs text file that you want to link to, click the target heading. The browser address bar will contain an URL that looks like this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/bl51...gI5D/edit#...
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Put an image into a header and make it take up the full page
Background Images in Docs
In Google Docs background images are referred to as Watermarks.
To add one navigate to Insert menu ▶ Watermark
Then customize as needed.
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How to get all of the ancestors of a chosen heading "z" in Google Docs in one go as a string to make: [MY DOC LINK] --> "x" --> "y" --> "z"?
Your approach causes the behavior
Instead of copying the URL from the address bar and pasting it as you are currently doing,
place your insertion point where the link should go
insert link: ctrl+k or ...
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Withdraw a non-changing edit from the version list in Google Docs?
Unfortunately, you cannot. All you can do is to try to avoid the situation.
Typical Workarounds
Since a document you own will always open in edit mode, here are some approaches people employ alone or ...
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How to stop Google from logging me out?
2 Week Default
By default, the web session length for Google services is 14 days. These settings apply to all desktop web sessions, as well as some mobile browser sessions.
Native mobile apps, like ...
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Keyboard shortcut for horizontal rule in Google Docs?
Horizontal Line Keyboard Shortcut
Win alt+i then press r
Mac ctrl+option+i then press r
Why?
Win alt+i
Mac ctrl+option+i
Opens the "Insert" menu
r selects the "...
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You've reached the document limit for comments
Although not a direct solution, I have run into similar problems needing to maintain review history and used some scripts to export all of the comments data to a spreadsheet, then maintained the ...
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Showing Inline Section Headers in Document Outline
Assign the header to the full text first, THEN manually change the font size, weight, color, etc. of the subsequent body text. The body text will still be assigned to whatever header you assigned it ...
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How to view full image (preview) in a Google Doc? (e.g., hover over)
There seems to still be no way to do this unfortunately. And to boot, there's also no way to just save the image or open it in a new tab.
What I've had to do is copy the image into a text editor like ...
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How do I replace a paragraph break (i.e. Enter) with a Shift+Enter character in Google Docs?
The "shift-enter" character in Google Docs is called "vertical tab".
Dec
Hex
Binary
HTML
Char
Description
9
09
00001001
	
HT
Horizontal Tab
10
0A
00001010
LF
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All Google Docs URL parameters/functions/commands?
In a Cordova/Ionic app, I am embedding the following in an iFrame and found the following:
<iframe id="viewerFrame" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" style="width:...
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How to make a list like 1.1, 1.2 with Google Docs?
Add numbered list.
Enter list items and select them.
Press increase indent.
Done.
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Google drive keyboard shortcuts not working with non-US keyboard
If you are using Windows 10/11, another option is to use PowerToys > Keyboard Manager. Create the mapping as in the screenshot below:
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Can I be notified if a Google Drive (Sheets or Docs) document is changed?
In 2023, I think this is now (finally) available through button like this in Google Docs's menu
Google Sheets has something similar too:
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How do I prevent Google Docs from changing (some) spaces to tabs when pasting from text editor?
This works for me:
Open a plain text editor that supports dragging selected text to another application.
First paste the text into that editor, select it, and drag into the desired location in the ...
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Why are my edits and presence anonymous in Google document when I'm signed in?
As of December 2022 - if you were anonymously added to a document and have access to edit it you can directly invite yourself.
Click the "Share" button and add your email address with "...
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Can I format the Google Docs Table of Contents to only include certain headers?
Here's what I have come up with to make a TOC that uses only one specific heading style. It works pretty well and I included the code (onOpen) that makes this a custom function that appears at the top ...
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Increase fraction size in Google Docs equation
Selecting the "whole equation"
I found this difficult to get right at first, so I am expanding on the accepted answer of @Omar Elrefaei.
At first I thought I was selecting the "whole ...
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