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Learn the ins and outs of Google Docs in this comprehensive one-day class. Discover how to create, edit, share, and print documents seamlessly with the help of Google Docs. Perfect for those transitioning from Microsoft Office or looking to expand their knowledge of G Suite.

  • Beginner
  • 18 and older
  • $295
  • 1320 Tower Rd, Chicago, IL
  • 6 hours & 45 minutes

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  • $295
  • ONLC Schaumburg @ 1320 Tower Rd 1st Fl, Chicago, IL 60173
  • 6 hours & 45 minutes
  • All classes are live, hands-on training via remote instructor.
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this google apps training:

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

  • 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

  • Explore tool
  • 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

Refund Policy

Cancellation / Reschedule by Student

Because we must schedule rooms, ship course materials, assign instructors and provision computer resources well in advance, it is important students alert us ASAP with any cancel/reschedule requests.

Please note the following policies:

  • If requested 16 or more calendar days before the class
    • Cancellation requests made in this timeframe are eligible for refund less 5% cancellation fee.
    • Reschedule requests made in this timeframe will be accommodated if availability exists and will be processed at no additional charge.
  • If requested 15 calendar days or less before the class
    • Cancellation or Reschedule requests made by the student 15 calendar days or less before the class starts will be charged 100% the course fee and are not entitled to a refund.

Substitutions

  • If you are unable to attend your class, a substitute who meets the course prerequisites may attend in your place at no additional charge for the original class title, date and location. If you cannot find a substitute, you will be subject to the class cancellation policy.

Make-up Policy

Students are permitted one (1) Make-Up opportunity to attend an instructor-led class that was paid for but not previously attended for no additional charge.

  • Make-Up class registrations are subject to availability and are not entitled to refund.
  • Students may not reschedule a Make-up class registration.
  • Any no shows or cancellations forfeit their one Make-up opportunity.

Additionally, ONLC reserves the right to retire courses due to lack of demand. Retired classes are not available for Make-Up.

In the event that an instructor or the school needs to cancel at the last minute, students will receive a refund less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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