In a bustling year of developments, the Google Workspace team introduced numerous new features and improvements across their suite of apps. Here’s a concise summary of my top picks that affected Sheets, Docs, Drive, and the new AI Bard. Sheets New functions Another 11 brand-new functions were added to Sheets, including LET, TOROW, TOCOL, WRAPROWS,… Continue reading Summary of Google Workspace 2023 new features (Pt 1)
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Learn useful Google URL tricks to make your online easier
In this post, we’re going to look at several useful Google URL tricks which allow us to quickly do a whole range of things, like quickly create documents, provide links to copy master templates, and from a link automatically download a PDF version of a document, and many more. We’re going to look at….. Useful… Continue reading Learn useful Google URL tricks to make your online easier
What’s the difference between a Google Workspace and a free Gmail account?
What’s different in Google Workspace to a free Gmail account? This post will show you some of the differences between a paid Google Workspace account and a free personal Gmail account and quite often Google Workspace users aren’t aware of some of the extra features Workspace offers, so let’s have a look some of them… Continue reading What’s the difference between a Google Workspace and a free Gmail account?
Google Docs – Working with images (part 2)
In the previous post on working with images in Google Docs, we looked at the different ways to get images into your document, now let’s look at editing those images in Docs. We’ll look at the following: Resizing an image Adding a border Changing its properties Cropping an image Rotating an image Replacing an image… Continue reading Google Docs – Working with images (part 2)
Google Docs – Getting to grips with tables (part 2)
This is the second part of a post on how to use tables in Google Docs. In part 1 we looked at inserting and deleting tables, inserting and deleting rows and columns, and changing the cell alignment. Here we’ll cover the following: Cell background colour Table borders Merging & unmerging rows & columns Cell padding… Continue reading Google Docs – Getting to grips with tables (part 2)
Google Docs – Extra useful tools
Here’s a collection of small but useful tools in Docs, which I think can make life that little bit easier. The majority are related to the document as a whole and allow you to do things without having to go back to Google Drive. We’ll look at: Opening files from within Docs You can open… Continue reading Google Docs – Extra useful tools
Google Docs – Adding special characters
Apart from the usual fonts and letters we sometimes want to add very specific characters, e.g. arrows, Greek letters, emoji, etc. Docs provides a wide range of these and they are simple to insert into your document. In addition to this, Docs also provides a way to simply add mathematical equations. Inserting special characters Go… Continue reading Google Docs – Adding special characters
Google Docs – Paragraph styles (Headings)
When writing a document, particularly a longer one, you will want to ensure that there is a consistent style to it and one way is to ensure all the titles and headings have a common style. This is where paragraph styles come into it and these are simple to use which not only will ensure… Continue reading Google Docs – Paragraph styles (Headings)
Google Docs – Working with images (part 1)
Images make a document for more interesting and also easier to understand. Here we’ll look at working with images and as there is a lot to cover, this post will be in two parts. We’ll cover the following: Part 1 Inserting images Uploading Taking a snapshot By URL Google albums Google Drive Search Part 2 Editing… Continue reading Google Docs – Working with images (part 1)
Google Docs – Making bulleted & numbered lists
Lists are great for summarising points and showing the order of something concisely. Docs gives you various ways you can present lists. These can be the classic bullet points or can be numbered in different ways to suit your text. Here we’ll look at: Basic lists (bulleted & numbered) Making sub-lists Other list formats Adding… Continue reading Google Docs – Making bulleted & numbered lists