Google Docs

It’s easy to highlight continuous text in Google Docs. All you have to do is drag your cursor across the screen. Google Docs also offers multiple methods for selecting the entire document. 

For example, you can press Control (or Command) + A or choose the ‘Select all’ option from the Edit menu. You can read about the methods for selecting the entire text in Google Docs here.

However, there is one type of text selection that is not easy to do in Google Docs. This is the selection of non-continuous text. For example, sometimes you may want to select a word in paragraph 1 and another word in paragraph 5. 

In MS Word and some other word processing apps, you can do this by pressing the Control key and clicking on the text. This keyboard shortcut doesn’t work in Google Docs. 

So, how exactly do you select multiple non-continuous words in Google Docs? We will be answering this question in this article. The following is one method you can use to perform this task:

• Selecting all matching text
  

Note that this article is intended for complete beginners. Hence, you can follow along even if you have very little to no experience with Google Docs. 

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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There are some situations when you might want to select your entire document. For example, you might want to change the font of all the text in your document. To do this, you have to first select the entire document then change the font. 

3 Methods to select all in Google Doc

• Using the Control + A (or Command + A) keyboard shortcut
  
• Using your cursor
  
• Choosing the ‘Select All’ option from the ‘Edit’ menu
  

Also, keep in mind that this article is intended for complete beginners. Hence, you can follow along even if you have never used Google Docs before. 

With that introduction, let’s learn about the methods! 

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Timelines are an excellent way to visualize and present events over a period of time. Historically, timelines were used to plot specific milestones and achievements. Today, companies utilize timelines as a graphical representation of workflow in school or business projects.

These timelines can serve a variety of purposes across many different industries. 

If you manage several projects and want to be on top of everything, learning to make a simple timeline will streamline your work. With Google Docs, you can make simple yet effective timelines to guide you through your project.

You’ll find several useful tools in the Drawing Toolbar of Google Docs to easily create a timeline from scratch. 

Now, there’s only one way to make a timeline on Google Docs. 

Making a Timeline on Google Docs

• Using the Drawing Toolbar to make a timeline

Learning to make a timeline to lay out the workflow saves you a lot of time and money. Fortunately, Google Docs offers an easy way to make simple timelines using the Drawing Toolbar.

The Drawing Toolbar provides a lot of tools to easily create simple timelines from scratch or from templates. Take note, however, that you won’t need a sophisticated, well-designed timeline to make it work. Unless you’re using it to make a pitch, a simple timeline can get the job done in most cases. 

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Have you ever wondered how you could edit a Google Doc using MS Word? If your answer is yes, then you’ve come to the right place. Google Docs provides several ways to download a document.

You can choose to download a Google Doc directly while you have them already opened. Or, you can access those files on your Google Drive to download one by one or by bulk. 

Now, there are about four ways to download a Google Doc. 

4 Ways to Download a Google Doc 

• Through Google Drive using your computer
• Through Google Docs using your computer
• Through Google Drive using your smartphone
• Through Google Docs using your smartphone

If you’re feeling overwhelmed just by learning that there is more than one way to download a Google Doc, don’t be. We’ve outlined each step for each of the four methods with beginners in mind. Rest assured that, after going through them, you’ll feel more confident about handling Google documents than ever.

We’ll walk you through every step of the way about how to download a Google Doc in this guide below. Basically, you can either download a Google Doc from either your Google Drive or Google Docs.

Downloading from Google Docs, however, gives you more options to download your document in your preferred file type. 

Without any delay, let’s get right to it! 

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If you’re writing a scientific paper and wondering how you can type in exponents, then you’ve come to the right place. Exponents are the small numbers or texts found slightly higher than the main text.

They are most commonly used in papers to point to footnotes or endnotes. Additionally, exponents are an excellent formatting feature found in different types of writing. 

You’ll be grateful for Google Docs for creating such a useful tool to type in exponents in a few simple clicks.

This is especially true if you deal with equations and footnotes on a regular basis. Also, writing mathematical equations has never been easier with Google Docs’s Equation Toolbar. 

Now, there are about three ways to type in exponents in Google Docs.

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Have you ever heard of the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words”? This phrase dates a couple of decades back when the use of pictures was starting to be the norm in marketing materials.

Today, pictures are a must in almost all written work, be it on a newspaper, magazine, or digital articles.

This is due to the fact that humans are mostly visual beings. And, you’ll surely agree with us that an excellent photo should come with a good, complementing caption. 

Captions convey important information to explain what the picture is about. It answers the who, where, what, how, and why of the readers to draw interest to the full-text story.

Now, there are about three ways to add a caption to an image in Google Docs. 

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The default background colour of your Google Docs pages is white. You can change the background colour to any colour that you want. 

There are many benefits of changing the background color of your Google Docs pages. It makes your pages look more colorful, something different from the typical pages.

Changing the background colour is especially useful if you are creating artwork. Some examples include greeting cards, social media posts and logos. 

There are two options for changing the background colour of your Google Docs page. One, you can change the background colour of the entire document. Alternatively, you can also change the background colour of a single page. This allows you to have different-coloured pages in your document.

3 ways to Change Background Color of Google Docs

• Going to the ‘Page setup’ option in the File menu
  
• Inserting a text box from the Insert menu
  
• Creating separate documents and merging them 

Note that this article is intended for complete beginners. Hence, you can follow along even if you’ve never used Google Docs before.

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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The default font style in Google Docs is Arial, with the font size being 11. Any time you create a new document, the text in that document will be formatted in this style. It is possible to change this default style in Google Docs. 

Google Docs offers numerous options for font styles. Some examples include Cambria, Roboto and Times New Roman. You can find all these fonts and more by clicking on the font option in the toolbar. 

If you want more options for fonts, you can click on ‘More fonts’. Another way of finding more fonts is by installing an add-on called Extensis Fonts. We have written a detailed article about installing new fonts on our website.

The main benefit of changing the default font in Google Docs is that it saves you time and effort. Any time you create a new document, the text in that document will be formatted in the new default style. This means that you don’t have to spend any time or effort changing the defaults of each document.

In this article, we will be talking about how you can change the default font in Google Docs. Specifically, we will be talking about the following two methods.

Two ways to change default font in Google Docs:

• Changing the normal text (and other paragraph styles) from the toolbar
  
• Changing the normal text (and other paragraph styles) from the Format tab

We will also talk about how to reset the default styles.

Note that this article is intended for complete beginners. Hence, you can follow along even if you have no or very little experience with Google Docs. 

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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There are different ways in which you can format the text in your document. For example, you can change its size and colour. In this article, we will be focusing on the text’s font.

Font refers to the way your text looks. Google Docs offers a lot of fonts for you to choose from. For example, Cambria and Ariel are two popular fonts. 

You can see the list of fonts that are available in Google Docs in the toolbar.

If you are not satisfied with the fonts that Google Docs already offers, you can install new ones. There are many situations in which you might want to install custom fonts. For example, if you are a graphic designer, you might want to use unique fonts for your projects. 

The benefit of using a custom font is that it makes your document stand out. For example, you could use a readable custom font for your resume. This would help make it stand out among the thousands of resumes that a recruiter goes through. 

Two methods of adding custom fonts in Docs:

• Filtering the fonts that are already installed on Google Docs
  
• Using the Extensis Fonts add-on
  

Note that this article is meant for complete beginners. So, you can follow along even if you don’t have much experience with Google Docs.

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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