From the course: Google Docs Essential Training

Name, save, and access a doc

From the course: Google Docs Essential Training

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Name, save, and access a doc

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- [Narrator] We've created a new blank Google Doc, and we do have some buttons here at the top of the screen, and your buttons may look a little bit different than mine. I'm going to go over all of them and why you may be seeing some different things than I am, but for now, I want to give our doc a title and organize it into a folder that I want it saved in. By default, Google Docs exist in your Google Drive, but you can change that folder that it's stored in. To give your doc a name, you can click untitled document on the top left-hand side of the screen. But before you do that, I do want you to notice that there is nothing here to the right of this star. So watch what happens when I click inside and give it a name. I'm going to create a new document about our company that we can share with all new hires. So watch what happens when I hit the Enter key. I now have two new icons, and I can see here that there's a cloud with a checkmark icon next to it. This means that it has been successfully saved in Google Drive. In fact, I can click on this icon and it's going to tell me that all changes have been saved to Drive. I can click away from it to make that go away. I'm going to tell you a little bit more about that later, but for now, you should know that there is no manual saving necessary in Google Docs. You never have to save anything. Every change you make is automatically going to be stored. So knowing that, let's move this doc to a new folder. Click the folder icon to the right of the title. Now right now it's in the root of My Drive on Google Drive, and it is suggesting some existing folders that I have in Google Drive, but I'm going to click where it says My Drive. And the reason for this is it's going to show me everything I have here. And in fact, also on the bottom left-hand side, it gives me the opportunity to create a brand new folder in Google Drive if I wanted to. That's why I wanted to show you that. I do, however, already have a folder called New Hire Manuals. So I'll hover my mouse over that and click Move. I get a notification that it's been moved from the root of My Drive into my New Hire Manuals folder. And now if I want to find it, I can go right to that folder in Google Drive. In fact, I can close out of this doc entirely by clicking the X in the browser tab. I'm back to Google Drive and let's find our doc. I'll click on the left-hand side to expand the contents of My Drive. I'll go into my New Hire Manuals folder, and here's my doc, Company information for new hires. I can tell that it's a Google Doc versus a spreadsheet or a presentation because of this blue icon. And also when I hover my mouse over it, I'm going to get a small preview of what it looks like. In fact, right now it's blank because we don't have anything in that doc, but let's fix that by double-clicking on it to open it up and start working on it.

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