This one-day class will show you how to create, edit, share, and print documents with Google Docs. The class is recommended for users who would like to get to know Google Docs in more depth or who are converting to G Suite from another office suite such as Microsoft Office.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success in this course, you should have end-user computer skills, including being able to start programs, switch between programs, locate saved files, close programs, and access websites using a web browser.
Who Should Not Attend
If you have never used a word processor before, you should not take this class. The class is fast-paced and assumes you understand the basic word processing concepts. You know how to do things in Microsoft Word--now you just need to learn how to do the same things in Google Docs.
Course Outline
The basics
- Creating a new document
- Finding your way around a Google Doc
- What are in the menus?
- File
- Edit
- View
- Format
- Add-ons
- Help
- What's on the Toolbar
How to make your text look better
- How to select the text
- How to change the font
- Adding more fonts
- Changing the font size
- Adding bold, italics and underlining
- Changing the font color
- Highlighting your text
- Adding strike-through
- Adding superscript and subscript
Setting up the page
- Page setup
- Changing the page orientation
- Changing the size of the page
- Changing the colour of the paper
- Changing the page margins
- Changing the alignment of the text
- Left
- Centre
- Right
- Justify
- Manually adding a page break
- Ruler
- Adding columns
Getting to grips with tables
- Inserting a table
- Deleting a table
- Adding information to a table Inserting rows & columns
- Deleting rows & columns
- Column width & row height
- Distribute rows and columns
- Vertical & horizontal alignment of cells
- Horizontal alignment
- Vertical alignment
- Cell background color
- Table borders
- Changing all the borders
- Changing specific borders
- Merging and unmerging rows & columns
- Table alignment
- Cell padding
Making bulleted & numbered lists
- Making basic lists (bulleted and numbered)
- Numbered list
- Bulleted list
- Making sub-lists
- Other list formats
- Numbered lists
- Bulleted lists
- Adding space to lists
- More bullets
- Restart numbering
Working with images
- Inserting images
- Upload from computer
- Resizing the image
- Adding a border and changing its properties
- Cropping an image
- Rotating an image
- Changing the image properties
- Replacing an image
- Positioning an image in a text
- In line
- Wrap text
- Break text
Printing
- Total pages and sheets of paper
- Destination
- Pages
- Copies
- Options
- More settings
- Open PDF in Preview
- Page preview icons
Inserting headers, footers, and page numbers
- Inserting headers and footers
- Inserting page numbers and page counts
Inserting links, drawings & lines
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Inserting drawings
- Inserting a horizontal line
Spelling, personal dictionary & word count
Paragraph styles (Headings)
- What are they?
- Using a default paragraph style
- Setting a paragraph style
- Setting the default styles
- Borders and shading
- Outline
- Table of contents
Sharing, emailing, and downloading
- Downloading a document
- Emailing a document
- Email collaborators
- Email as attachment
- Sharing a document
Adding comments and suggestions
- Comments
- Comment notifications
- Sending actions via comments
- Document modes: Editing, suggesting, viewing
- Accepting and rejecting all suggested edits
Working with another language
- Translating a document
- Using a different language
Inserting special characters & mathematical equations
- Inserting special characters
- Finding special characters
- Adding mathematical equations
Voice typing and voice control
- Voice typing
- Correcting your text
- Formatting your document
Version history
- How to name a version history
- How to show only named version histories
Explore and Dictionary
Connecting charts & slides to Docs
- Adding a chart to a Google Doc
- Adding a chart from a spreadsheet
- Inserting slides into a Doc
Extra useful tools
- Opening files from within Docs
- Creating new files from within Docs
- Doc templates
- Make a copy of the current document
- Organize (moving from within Docs)
- Starring the file
- Full screen
- Find and replace
- Capitalization
- Adding information to and from Google Keep