You can give people full access to edit your document or you can restrict them to only being able to make suggestions and comments on your document. This is a great feature for seeing the evolution of a student’s document.Ĭlick the “share” button in the upper, right corner of your document to invite people to become collaborators on your document. You can set different names for each version. This feature was formerly called “revision history.” Select “version history” to find the various iterations of your document. See the screenshot below for direction on finding the line spacing settings in the toolbar. You can find the settings in the “format” menu.

You can change that to anything you like, if you know where the line spacing settings are found. The default line spacing in Google Docs is 1.15. For example, the last name of a friend of mine is Wankowicz, that name is never recognized by spell check unless the spell check is customized through the “personal dictionary” function. In the “tools” menu select “personal dictionary” to teach the spell check to ignore the spelling of names or other words that are often marked incorrect by spell check despite being spelled correctly. Then you can use the find and replace function to quickly change names, adjectives, and even entire sentences without having to create each report from scratch. The next time you find yourself sitting down to start writing summative reports before parent-teacher conferences, create a template that you can quickly modify for each student. In the “File” drop-down menu you’ll find a “page setup” option that allows you to change page orientation, set margins, and even change the page background color. And while we’re on the topic of fonts, it is possible to change the default font.

Font optionsīesides the default options in the font drop-down menu there are hundreds of other options available when you choose “more fonts” at the top of that menu. Here are ten features that new users can benefit from learning early on. In fact, I’m often asked for a list of the “must-know” features instead of all of the “could use” features.

But you certainly don’t need to use all of the features of Google Docs demonstrated in that playlist let alone watch all of the videos.

I recently published a playlist of 76 Google Docs tutorials.

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