Google Drive and Other Google Apps

Name: Google Drive and Other Google Apps
Author: Eric Andal

In this chapter you will get an overview of Google’s native apps available to use with Google Drive.

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In these lessons, you'll learn about Google Drive and other Google apps. In this lesson, you will learn about Google Docs overview. Google Docs is Google's word processing software. If you know how to use or are familiar with Microsoft Word, then you are ready to use Google Docs. Even if you do not know how to use Microsoft Word, Google Docs is simple to pick up and start using. And since Google Docs runs from your web browser, there's no software to download to your computer. You can use it as soon as you have a Google account. First, let's access Google drive. On the Google homepage, click on the nine dot waffle grid icon located at the top right-hand corner of the page. On the menu that appears, click on drive. You will now be at your my drive page. Now I will click on new and I will click on Google Docs. Let's take a look at what Google Docs has to offer. First, let's take a look at this toolbar. The first part of the toolbar is undo. Next we have redo, and then we have print, spelling and grammar check, paint format, zoom, styles, font, font size, bold, metallic, underlying text color, highlight color, insert link, insert image, left align, center align, right, align. Justify, line and paragraph spacing, checklist, bulleted list, numbered list. Decrease indent, increase indent and clear formatting. Now let's take a look at the dialog boxes located at the top of the screen. Under file we have share, new, open, make a copy, email, download, make available offline, version history. Rename, publish to the web, document details. Language, page set up and print. Now let's take a look at edit. We have undo. Redo. Cut, copy, paste, paste without formatting, delete, select all and find and replace. Let's take a look at view. We have print layout, mode, text width, show ruler, show document outline, show equation, toolbar, show section breaks, and full screen. Now let's take a look at insert. We have image, cable, drawing, chart, horizontal line, date, footnote, building blocks, special characters, equation, watermark, headers and footers. Page numbers, break, link, bookmark, and table of contents. Now let's take a look at format. Here, we have text, paragraph styles, align and indent, line and paragraph spacing, columns, bullets and numbering, headers and footers, page numbers, page orientation, table image, clear formatting and borders and lines. And now let's take a look at tools, spelling and grammar, word count, review suggested edits, compare documents, citations, explore, linked objects, dictionary, translate, document, voice typing, script editor, preferences, and accessibility settings. Now let's take a look at ad-ons. If you have any installed ad-ons they will appear here in the ad-ons menu. If you do not, you can click on get ad-ons, by default, there are no ad-ons in the ad-ons menu, and finally, the help menu, which lets you search the menus docs, help, training, updates, help docs improve, report abuse slash copyright, privacy policy, terms of service, and finally, keyboard shortcuts. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next lesson where we will learn about Google Slides overview.

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Course Description

In this chapter you will get an overview of Google’s native apps available to use with Google Drive: Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Drawings.

What You'll Learn

Access and open Google Docs
Access and open Google Slides
Access and open Google Sheets
Access and open Google Forms
Access and open Google Drawings

Key Takeaways

This chapter provides an overview of Google's native apps available to use with Google Drive.
The Google apps covered are Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Drawings.
Each lesson focuses on giving an overview of one Google app and how to access it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this chapter cover?

It provides an overview of Google's native apps available to use with Google Drive: Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Drawings.

What will I learn to do in this chapter?

You will learn to access Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Drawings.

Which lessons are included?

The lessons are Google Docs Overview, Google Slides Overview, Google Sheets Overview, Google Forms Overview, and Google Drawings Overview.

What skills does this chapter focus on?

It focuses on Google Applications, Google Apps Script, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Slides, and Google Tools.