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Creating and Sharing your First Google Document

Phil Polsinelli - SRI&ETTC Stockton University

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First let’s start a new Google doc

From your google Drive

  1. New
  2. Select Docs > Blank Docs

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Let’s Add Some Text

Using Text Styles is essential if you want to create a table of contents

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Let’s Explore the Toolbar

Print

Undo / Redo

Paint �Format

Zoom

Text Styles

Font

Font Size

Bold

Italic

Underline

Text/Highlight Color

Insert Link

Add Comment

Text Justify

Line Spacing

Bullets and Numbering

Clear

Formatting

Editing

Mode

Open

Comments

Thread

Access Share Settings

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Shortcut: Using your First Line of Text as a Title

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Let’s add a Picture

  • Upload - Upload an image from your Computer
  • Snapshot - Take a pic with your computer camera
  • By URL - Paste the web address of an image
    • How to find an images URL
  • From “Your Albums” - Add an image from your albums
  • From your google Drive - Add an image that is already stored in Drive
  • Search for an Image
    • Let’s discuss usage rights

Other Considerations

  • Inline, Wrap or Break

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Using Google Power to Find an Image

Insert>Image

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We Need to Link Somewhere

You paste a link you already know or you can search for one on the fly!!!��Let’s Search for One:

  1. Select your link text
  2. Click the Link Icon
  3. Paste or search for your �Link url
  4. Click “Apply”

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Let’s Share

Sharing options:

  • Specific People - Simply submit their email addresses
  • Get Shareable Link
    • Anyone (at your School) can Edit, Comment or View
    • More… (all options are available here)
      • Public
      • Anyone with a Link
      • Anyone at your School
      • Anyone at your School with a Link
      • Specific People

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Share with a Specific Person

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Don’t Keep your Comments to Yourself

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Making your Document Available to the World

Public vs Anyone with a Link

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The Beauty of Google

Transferable knowledge

Once you know how to share a doc, you know how to share EVERYTHING Google

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Adding a comment

Highlight text in the spot where you want to comment

Click on the comment icin to the right

Add your comment

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Resolving a comment

Once you view a comment and no longer need it to be contained in the document you can resolve it by clicking on the resolve button in the comment.

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Suggesting Edits in a Document

You can switch to “Suggesting” mode in a shared document in order to type revisions that can be reviewed and accepted or denied.

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Accepting a suggestion

You can accept a suggestion by clicking the check mark in the suggestion box.

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You can reject it by clicking the X

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Adding citations from web references

The “Explore” feature allows us to research and add citations as either MLA or APA footnotes.

We can also add images through this feature.

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Questions

Please feel free to ask questions