How to Change Background Color 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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How to change default font in MS Word

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You know the default body font which comes with your MS Word Software Installation?

The answer is:

Calibri, 11pt.

Your font will always be the same every time you open a new Word document unless you change it before you start typing.

Have you ever wondered how you could change that? 

Having a personalized font set up as the default body theme in MS Word is a clever way to save time. It also allows you to create a new document without having to change the font repeatedly. This is particularly true for those of us that have our own personal fonts that we like using. The same set of fonts we use in our articles make it a distinctive piece of work. However, we do not want to go through the hassle of always changing the font every time we open MS Word. Fortunately, we can change the default font easily. 

Now, there are about three ways to change the default font in MS Word. 

3 Ways To Change Default Font In MS Word

  • Using the Ribbon
  • Using the Context Menu
  • Using a Shortcut Key

Without further ado, let’s get on with it. 

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How to create a hanging indent in MS Word

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Citing of sources is a must in most, if not all, reading materials. Various citation styles require hanging indents to format your list of sources.

This is a common format commonly found in bibliographies, reference lists, and cited works.

Here is how a Hanging Indent looks like:

A hanging indent is basically the opposite of what we usually see in common paragraph indentations, where the first line is indented.

When hanging indentation is used, the first line is not indented while the rest of the paragraph is.

Formatting each line of your citation with hanging indents makes it easier to be distinguished from the others.

It also allows your readers to quickly spot the citation details like the author names, publication dates, and place, pages, etc.  

Now, there are about three ways to create a hanging indent in MS Word. 

3 Ways to Create a Hanging Indent in MS Word

  • Using the Ribbon
  • Using the Context Menu
  • Using the Ruler

Having said that, let’s get started! 

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How to freeze rows in google sheets

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Freezing rows can help you in better visualization and analysis of the spreadsheet data.

2 Ways to Freeze Rows in Google Sheets

  • Freeze the first row 
  • Freeze a certain number of rows up to the current row

Freezing the rows will also ensure that the row sticks on the top while scrolling. So if you want to pin a row to the top, check the above 2 methods.

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How to add a table of contents in a word document

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When reading a book, the table of contents makes it easier to navigate through the contents. You can also generate a table of contents in your Word document.

A table of contents helps especially when your document is large. It allows the reader to locate and navigate to a specific topic of interest. This also makes your document more user-friendly. At the same time, it becomes easier for you to edit the content in your document.

To add a table of contents, your document must be using the first three heading styles. These are Heading 1, heading 2, and Heading 3.

You can add the heading styles as you are writing the document. But if you have not done so, you can add them later as well. Once you have added the heading styles, you can create the table of contents.

Word allows you to:

  • Create a table of contents
  • Update the table of contents
  • Remove the table of contents

Let us show you how to apply each of the above.

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How to Lock a Word Document

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Locking your Word document has many benefits. You can make what-if comparisons to see how some changes will affect your document. As you have locked your document, there is no danger of the changes becoming permanent. You can change the document as you want, and if the result is not acceptable, you simply walk away. Your original document remains safe.

The above works at a personal level. But you may be sharing a document. If you do not want others to make any changes, you must lock it more securely. Therefore, you protect the document from editing by making it read-only.

3 ways to Lock a Word Document:

  • Lock it for personal use
  • Lock parts of the document for public use
  • Lock the entire document for public use

Let us start.

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How to Password Protect a Word Document

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There can be several reasons for wanting to protect your document. For instance, when you share a document, you may want only a selected few to view and/or edit your document.

You may have sensitive information in your document that you do not want others to know.

For all this, you may encrypt your document with a password. Until the other person has the password, they cannot open the document.

We will show you how to achieve this in simple stepwise instructions.

Let us begin.

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How to Change Default Fonts in Google Docs

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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. 

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.

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How to Add Custom Fonts to Google Docs

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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 Goolgle 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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