Google Docs Tutorial

Jennifer Dorman

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Google Docs – A Tutorial What is it? Google Docs is a free online program that allows users to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online and share them with others for collaboration. This allows educators and students to share their work with others, collaborate on assignments, and save documents online for access at school or at home. Why use it? You can use Google Docs to: • Work on files anywhere, anytime • Get quick feedback from multiple people – simultaneously and asynchronously • Make the full writing process visible – including revisions • Quickly analyze and organize data • Easily share data sets • Publish documents for invitation viewing and editing or full public viewing • Upload and download documents in various file formats For a terrific introduction to Google Docs, check out “Google Docs in Plain English” – a production of the Common Craft Show. http://snipurl.com/1vrzr Creating a Google Docs Account In order to use Google Docs you will need to register for a Google account. If you already have one through Gmail then you can use the same login to access Google Docs. If you do not have a Gmail account you may want to consider signing up for one so you can also use the Gmail and Calendar feature within Google. Otherwise you can just sign up for a Google account with an email address of your choice and a password. (This type of account does not provide the use of Gmail.) Note that while it's possible to ...

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• Publié par: Urdoo
• Nombre de lectures: 42
• Langue: English

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New users can use any e-mail address tot ec rae aGoogle account, though they will have to  confirm the creation of their new Google account in order to access all the features. i. Fill in all of the required form fields to sign up for the account, read through the Terms of Service, and click I o   n Accept. Create My Acco   unt. You will need to verify your email address you used to create the account by signing into it and clicking on the link that Google Docs sends you.

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  2. Google Docs will open a new window that awllioll w you to create a word processed document.  

 

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Part 2  :Saving and Renaming a New Document   3. In order to save your document you just need to click o S n a t v h e ebutton. (You can also use the Save and Close button if you are finished working with the document.)

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  4. Your file should now appear in your main window.

Working with your Documents   Just like in Microsoft Word you can copy, paste, bold, underline, italicize, and many other editing options Although your editing options are not as comprehensive as a paid for program such as MS Word, you sh find most of what you will need to create and edit your documents. This lesson will take you through so of the features that are available.   Part 1: Edit Menu   1. The Edit menu has many different options available. Most of the icons that are used should look famil to you. For example the scissors icon represents the Cut feature and the clipboard icon represents th Paste feature. Take some timeftaomiliarize yourself with the different options that are available.     Part 2: Insert Menu   2. The Inser   t menu also provides you with some options of inserting many types of objects such as imag links, comments, and tables. Take some time tmoi lif a rize yourself with these different options.     Part 3: Spell Check   3. Google Docs does have a Spell Check featuirse .l oIct ated at the bottomg rhit hand corner of your  document. Click on th C e heck Spelli   n li g nk and it will highlight the words it considers spelled incorrectly.  

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