13 useful features of Google Docs that everyone should know

Many companies are gradually forgetting about MS Office programs and switching to online services. The popularity of Google Docs is due to its convenience and we will tell you how to make working in this editor even more convenient and fast.

# One Offline mode

Work on the document even without internet access – all changes made are synced after connecting to the network. Be careful – the feature is not automatic, you have to configure it separately.

# 2 Voice input

You can write down thoughts, draw articles or edit learning tasks, just turn on voice input and go.

# 3 History of changes

Convenient feature, especially if you work in a team on a document. You can see what the partners have changed in the text and when.

# 4 Mentions

If you want to link a classmate or colleague to a document, you just need to mark it with a “+”. Fast and convenient.

# Five Format converter

Save the document in Google Docs in any convenient format – from docx. On PDF. And no additional adapters are required.

# 6 Contents

If you need to compose voluminous text, use the table of contents creation function as in the good old Word.

# 7 Edit modes

Google Docs has three modes for working with text – “Edit”, “Tip” and “View”. The second mode is very convenient for teamwork, because the edited text in it is not deleted, but overlaps with a new one, waiting for approval.

# 8 Translator

You do not need to copy the entire text to the translator – just click on the “Tools” tab and select the “Translate Document” feature.

# Nine Drag and drop pictures

It is not necessary to save the desired image to a computer and only then insert it into the document. Click on the image on the site and drag it to the open document. It’s so simple.

# 10 Bookmarks

An excellent feature when composing voluminous texts. For quick navigation in the document, you can leave bookmarks and quickly return to the right places.

#eleven Comments

Highlight a sentence or word, click on the plus sign and leave a comment – co-authors will notice this immediately, thanks to the location to the right of the text.

# 12 Recognize text from images

Who knows the situation when you need to copy text from an image but really do not want to print it by hand? With Google Docs, you can easily copy text from PDF or image by saving it to a File Drive. Next, select “Open with Google Docs” and voila!

# 13 Charts and tables

You can create any kind of diagrams and insert spreadsheets inside the document. All this is stored in the “Insert” section.

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