Google Documents is a tool by Google Drive to create word documents on the web.
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How does Google Drive handle a name conflict when you copy or move a file?
If I is the web interface in Google Docs to copy MyFile.txt into a G Folder that already has MyFile.txt what happens in these scenarios?
The file contents are the same
The file contents are ...
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private templates in google drive
In google drive you can right click on a document and hit "submit to template gallery" when you go through to there you can submit your template, but that makes it public on the web so any one can ...
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Can I make columns in a Google document?
I am using Google Docs and have a document file. I would like to add columns within this, and was wondering if that is possible. I can't find how to do it internally.
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Why does Google document lock itself?
I use Ubuntu 11. When I open or create a Google document (.doc), I can't edit it but after a while I can. When I open it, it's "locked" and the keystrokes don't react. Anyone else seen this strange ...
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How to remove automatical negative indent from Google Documents?
When I write a paragraph in Google Documents, they get a very distinctive negative indent on the first line. I don't want that. I want my paragraphs to have no indent at all.
How do I get that?
Here ...
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Limitation of participants Google docs
I would like to create a registration form for a serie of lectures participants could sign up for. However, depending on the lectures, there is a different limitation of numbers of participants that ...
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Changing ownership of Google Documents
The rules around transferring ownership of a Google Document to another user appear to have recently changed, so I'd like some clear answers around what is and isn't possible.
My testing indicates ...
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Change background color of single page in Google Document
I would like to know how to change background color of single page in a Google Document. I want to make the Cover Page attractive.
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Google Docs, make a single page landscape
I have a really large table and I need to add it to a portrait document. Is there any way to make a single page landscape in Google Docs? In word you could add a "Section break" and do that. I hope ...
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In copy/paste, Google Docs says “These actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use Ctrl C” etc?
When selecting copy/paste from the right-click menu, why does Google Docs pop up a dialog to say "Copying and Pasting in Google Docs", with the message "These actions are unavailable via the Edit ...
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Can I prevent Google from tracking which links I follow in downloaded PDFs?
I want to create a PDF document using Google Docs/Drive that includes links, but without Google tracking clicks on those links.
Downloading a Google Drive document (File > Download as) in any other ...
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Google Docs: table of contents & exporting as PDF
I have a google document in which I used the built-in "generate table of contents" function to add a table of contents. It works perfectly in the browser/online.
But my problem came after I exported ...
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How can I have replies to an email sent to (appended to) a Google Doc?
I'm sending out a questionnaire to folks in an organization.
I'd like the results to be in a single document. But if I use Survey Monkey they'll each have to enter their name (and preferably their ...
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How to center a table in Google Docs?
Centering data within a table cell or cells in Google Docs is straightforward and easy (highlight and center).
But how to center an entire table?
This should be easy, but it isn't. I can't for the ...
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Automatic index of google doc footnotes?
Is there a way to get all footnotes summarized at the end of a google document?
I mean automatically updated, so that when you add a footnote, it will automatically appear in an index.
