From the course: Introduction to Google Docs

Compose a Google Doc - Google Docs Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Google Docs

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Compose a Google Doc

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Welcome to Module 2: Compose a Google Docs document. After you create a document, you'll want to format and add styles so the document meets your needs. In this module, we'll show you how you can format and name your document and then print it or move it to where you and your team can collaboratively access it. When you begin editing a document, use the format menu or toolbar to change text size, alignment and more. Select a word, sentence, paragraph or the entire document and then apply your desired formatting. In addition to applying bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript formatting to text, you can increase or decrease font size and choose from many fonts to personalize your document. Change the font color or the highlight color to emphasize text, align or indent paragraphs, change line spacing with preset and custom spacing options. Google Docs also supports multiple columns of content and bulleted or numbered lists with many different style options. If you want to reset your choices, choose clear formatting to clear any applied text formatting. Google Docs has its own preset styles that can be applied to text, but you can customize these if you prefer. To personalize the text styles in your documents, select some text and apply the formatting you require. Then select format, paragraph styles, hover over the style you want to customize and choose update style to match. If you want to retain your custom styles for future documents, select format paragraph styles again, then options and select save as my default styles. Then to use your own styles later in another document, create a new document and select format paragraph styles. Then select options and use my default styles. Google Docs defaults to a portrait orientation and letter sized paper with one inch margins all around. Select file and page setup to modify these options as well as the page color. Select set as default to make the page setup settings apply to any new document you create or select okay to save the settings just for your current document. To print a document, select the print icon in the toolbar or select file and then print. Choose a destination printer or save as PDF. Choose which pages to print, the pages per sheet, margins and whether to include background graphics if there are any. On Windows and Mac, you can open the system dialog for printing to access additional options. To name your document, select untitled document at the top and type a name. While you're editing the name, the location of the document in Google Drive will be visible next to it. Select it to move your document to another location in Google Drive. Later if you want to change the location of the file, select the move icon. Select the star to add your file to the starred label in Google Drive. Select see document status to check whether your changes are saved and whether the file is available for offline access. If offline access is not enabled for your Google Drive, you can turn it on from the see document status dialog. When offline access is enabled, you can select file and then make available offline for a specific document.

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