Google Docs Tooltip Shows Page Number

When you scroll a document in Google Docs, Google now shows a tooltip that includes the number of the page you're currently reading or editing and the total number of pages. It looks like this: "2 of 3". The tooltip is also displayed when you mouse over the scrollbar.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGzbbV4DT5cGrIthdlWoPKGOsHCGBvasSlcwWgjmJZ8uGgn0RYiQ-qCdrW-hy3BTCqW6r_7SUlCcrKF8ERGlmwSYOblHBV1JBT6IGhaLMzF5L-GS_Abz-p9Aud2NczftxroqI7A628P9q/s640/google-docs-shows-page-numbers.png" /></div><br />You can also check the number of pages using print preview or the word count feature. Another option is to insert page number and page count using the features from the Insert menu.<br /><br />{ Thanks, Daniel Fletcher. }

Google Docs Tooltip Shows Page Number

When you scroll a document in Google Docs, Google now shows a tooltip that includes the number of the page you're currently reading or e...

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Special Characters Search Engine in Google Drive

Google's Drive desktop apps have an updated dialog for <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3371015">inserting special characters</a>. If you open a document, spreadsheet or presentation, go to the Insert menu and click "Special characters", you have many ways to find a special character: use categories, search by keyword (example: arrow), enter the Unicode code point (example: 2195) or draw the character.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLsKn-W64jUZ6D3x0fNcHb7ll5eK2mmHu40fNjOtU08TAg3bszT2gZlA1yjqspF7_hYtKdLZvyOwFZJP1MsjZXHYU2QYm_Ud7W-LZ8wpIuGnIVlvBZJvUOSL3pn1Ia60sGDbpsez9Dxkt/s1600/google-docs-special-characters.png" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGG9jCbE0kqlbh5oYWcXud_RhSjYPQjmHiD4VS77nWl4MX1sKEpJvbgxwb406rpo7MqTERMdUrPiYy1-vLxZ6sy8rRk_9n81Mdy7FMD9AIag_Jlj95gyMS6F4C2KALdrui53aBSHpPDXZA/s1600/google-docs-special-characters-2.png" /></div><br />"We have launched a new version of the special character picker in Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings, making it easier for people to find characters and symbols — like arrows, shapes, or non-Latin characters — to insert into their content. The new picker now supports keyword search as well as free form input, so editors can draw the symbol that they have in mind and the picker will return available characters that resemble the drawing," <a href="http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/08/quickly-find-and-insert-special.html">informs Google</a>.<br /><br />Here's another example from <a href="https://plus.google.com/112893701314508522131/posts/UH9t5aUqTf6">Google Drive's Google+ page</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5vvo4IqLljqIdIfZ7mGt6NGdpe65ckxTeWGsfbKuUsIZl904DUwF6a3ea2OvSUMPImb7h5ebZcessVRycRBQ65EFlY0FPkFGfst59vB2vqqPcz8VFWI_0vum2NAT2PxukRUhyphenhyphenBYlJCec/s1600/docs-characters.gif" /></div>

Special Characters Search Engine in Google Drive

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New URL for Google Docs

If you go to <a href="http://docs.google.com/">docs.google.com</a>, you might see this message: "Soon, docs.google.com will start taking you to the Google Docs application, not Google Drive. You can always get to Google Drive by using drive.google.com." Until now, docs.google.com redirected to drive.google.com without displaying this message.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TP39sdFtHyf7RHSmXLpL7IPTOsVERyiIahqNf1AceVvoNt9-rzSfvgM0STorhI6omt5xMg9jHR7MKXLxZyXTMqQsRCW_qQb5Atov1KGhJocPm7V1Ok75sXVKX02ES2_SYzVOK4iM9zsa/s1600/google-docs-redirect.png" /></div><br />"You may be using docs.google.com to access Google Drive. With the launch of the <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/07/desktop-home-screens-for-docs-sheets.html">new Google Docs editors home screens</a>, docs.google.com will redirect to the Docs home screen, where you'll find all of your Google Docs and Word files," <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/4722414?hl=en">explains Google</a>.<br /><br />Some useful URLs:<br /><br />* <a href="http://docs.google.com/">docs.google.com</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/docs">google.com/docs</a> - Google Docs (the first URL still redirects to Drive for now)<br />* <a href="http://sheets.google.com/">sheets.google.com</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/sheets">google.com/sheets</a> - Google Sheets<br />* <a href="http://slides.google.com/">slides.google.com</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/slides">google.com/slides</a> - Google Slides

New URL for Google Docs

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Desktop Home Screens for Docs, Sheets and Slides

Google already started to roll out the <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-google-drive-interface.html">new desktop home screens</a> for Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. They're available at <a href="https://drive.google.com/document">drive.google.com/document</a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/spreadsheets">drive.google.com/spreadsheets,</a> <a href="https://drive.google.com/presentation">drive.google.com/presentation</a>. If these links create new files, then you can't access the new sites yet.<br /><br />The goal is to provide a desktop counterpart to the mobile apps. You can quickly switch between the desktop apps using the navigation menu and you don't even have to visit Google Drive to create a document, open a document or remove it. Google shows a grid of recent documents, but you can also switch to the list view and choose a different sorting option. Folders are only available in the file picker dialog.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mvLl6JzMK4TeCXLeV7Sw7-pBAXCGKGifXgvfOHtSEgQsXqj9eUlNzfMy2cOwDbGS2WS3k9ZwMdtSOzWTj44XMkIfwkARF2npD0-yFPfpyRyvim8ceAvwkOwUYGhSdDlQRWZxKm_3mlHn/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-07-11+at+6.37.14+.png" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLxFgox2z7qa9JlQDC8_uhwdg-6Bw_fDDtYFTiW896Cbx7v2eNSfDH4yrc0JKFzP1k-1OxpryVnhdRYu7r0WrCWOT42CEa3zBLuTKg4qJP3X-FEBnud95WAK69hT3dnjC5vhOJYciviX8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-07-11+at+6.38.31+.png" /></div><br />The new home screens provide few file management options: you can only rename or remove files. They're mostly useful for quickly opening a recent document, spreadsheet or presentation.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3lLu5ssgTaaKLfIMOHA-oPeN3UDVrXcknTDQE9krRWa_nkn8B3Fb5rpn4dx2slQzh1wbnRKvLA2vIntG7zKOr1VqYsAWb2Br70ttbJo9v5O5VsF26TuhIPvCGbTrpfO5l8M356Eiq_i4/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-07-11+at+6.40.00+.png" /></div><br />All the desktop apps uses a sticky round button at the bottom of the page that lets you create new documents, spreadsheets or presentations. The Material Design button is already used by some of Google's mobile apps and will be added to many other Google apps in the near future.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaf_m7fRV1WxkwoKTVO2d5-dWxX-8cKkCctQfSGPDMkcFrwl5P31n2PQG4GGekwY3rsIPcv8UOe1QPHFPdOTgC2Pg6XE9D2yYMjUZzGlXKlD22sx3DyrDQWvXCrzSgGr2n2Lfz14DMgMLU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-07-11+at+6.41.44+.png" /></div><br />{ Thanks, Herin. }

Desktop Home Screens for Docs, Sheets and Slides

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Google Docs' Identity Problem

Google's office suite has always had an identity problem. Google changed product names multiple times and didn't manage to differentiate its products.<br /><br />Back in 2006, Google acquired Writely (an online document editor) and XL2Web, which later became Google Spreadsheets. The two products merged and the resulting service <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-docs-spreadsheets.html">was called Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/607/1600/google-docs.gif" /></div><br />That worked well until 2007, when <a href="http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-has-acquired-tonic-systems.html">Google acquired Tonic Systems</a> and launched a service for editing presentations. Google Docs & Spreadsheets <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-presentations-finally-launched.html">was rebranded as Google Docs</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsty0-0QoU41H-Hkx61mUWNTK9_9Dqx_4NqNoaulov4XwQrjOPTzWOkiH6bTfWQji37MjmvwFSXEj_frobsLnY9amf7BNGaeUckJmFs1Z5wEhFhtOnkUHO6sVauD86GwzzccWhHYfy91A/s1600/google-docs-with-presentations.png" /></div><br />Back then, the document manager was called Google Docs List. The name was changed to <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-drive-google-docs-meets-dropbox.html">Google Drive</a> in 2012 and Google positioned it as an online storage service. Even though Google offered 1GB of free storage before Google Drive's launch, Google Docs was mainly perceived as a Microsoft Office alternative, not as a Dropbox alternative.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-cSW13t6HZA6G6U4gf8xMQmf35-DMJBZDoOG3d_w1oxx-2mxr2enogl7dP5ocx17iXT5-9IpxHNiHpHjADQLmqoyxizSqk5tUTVe1rkNqg1Zq95v9Oo61o9DDSxiGChgX969IbmJ5fhp/s640/gdrive-goggles.jpg" /></div><br />Google Drive added support for third-party apps and Google's online editors finally got names: <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/10/docs-sheets-slides-short-names-for.html">Docs, Sheets, Slides</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEKmmYhqHljqP9KCDQyY1vCaJ6NYxm0LiuXfFWpbC_DPOA0FkWIbWVIC55s1ugXbvmJgymviji2JWRXFleTe3x4P-olVieXWQ9UdZCjGheAZqU2fB-Q6ysW0DZDYo6ZD0A6qT0HeYFRct/s1600/google-docs-apps-in-chrome.png" /></div><br />Two months ago, Google Drive's mobile app for Android and iOS was <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/04/docssheetsapps.html">split into 3 apps</a>: Google Drive (file manager, file viewer), Google Docs and Google Sheets. Google Slides for Android was released last week and the iOS version will be released in a few weeks. Desktop apps will have <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-google-drive-interface.html">custom URLs</a> and their own dashboards.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3jvpe_AWulZAiI50R-g9IBwHfghDB0Pt_rUM_fXLfarc5qKUF2H8ufgVjij82QUVolDAMEH_gQcE-g8BN5ibKJGOJMGpH1ZUZoqqJk6x2cN-WFuSPDfsj6TOE4WX4WGTtLMuub4IuDJ0/s1600/google-drive-apps-web.png" /></div><br />Why create so many separate apps? Google's online editors have always been distinct applications. They came from different acquisitions and didn't have a lot in common when they were released. Their best feature was collaboration, but business users kept complaining about Microsoft Office compatibility, so Google bought QuickOffice and added support for native Office editing without conversion using a Chrome extension and the new mobile apps.<br /><br />To show that Google Drive/Docs still have an identity problem, let's read the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs">Wikipedia page for Google Docs</a>: "Google Docs is a free, web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It was formerly a storage service as well, but has since been replaced by Google Drive." Actually Google Docs is no longer an office suite, it's just an app for editing documents. It's not Google's Office, it's only Google's Words.<br /><br />Maybe the new mobile apps and the new dashboards for the desktop apps will make it more obvious that Docs, Sheets and Slides are separate apps and have their own identity.

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Google Drive Add-ons

Google Docs and the <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/12/newsheets.html">new version</a> of Google Sheets now support add-ons. Just click the new Add-ons menu, select "Get add-ons" and install some of them. They're not browser extensions, they're just ways to add new features to Google Docs and Sheets. Some of them are developed by Google, while others are developed by third-parties.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQG4IYR0D3RcXuI16LUV2AvSwLzRKFm5a7t1m519Whpa0k3_5gxU-0rbvOV82wKO-J27zE7HH4YK52l7-c5_fRClxfjEgC3S-Lg9Kw2ytfNvFq9ZrHuLERnahWTXsK4ciU60RhkLVTybV7/s1600/google-docs-addons.png" /></div><br />"Once you install an add-on it will become available across all of your documents or spreadsheets and you can start using it right away," <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/03/add-ons.html">informs Google</a>. You can always find them in the Add-ons menu.<br /><br />There are add-ons that translate the selected text, find synonyms, create a table of contents, insert maps, create charts from spreadsheets, generate bibliography, check your writing for consistency, add mail merge to Google Docs, print address labels, remove duplicates, import Google Analytics data and more.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuyB9otOwy-tAMn-oQsK3nHb0_uW0-RmB6xhXpFCf2Tzl9VLx1pCQc5xePdo9BS13wCzJ2HYpkgvZl3ep1TVL_WpTrnR4TK0Bkb6a7KSHEHsVjWXtgQScMXqPHGKLEwup8CDHJJWtD9dz9/s1600/google-docs-addons-2.png" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWHuyzE3zpPU83IrFln8Tw2hTrntiHGaSIhsYbukOfsJOZ7Jf_V7_mMxu-2zMAxVCdznHIj3F_l6dbJofK-QtJHdjAi9U2UfCkR0ew2_HQByiKPqTmFTDF8gmbfH_D9u0luexZKB2aZdVl/s1600/google-docs-addons-4.png" /></div><br />Here's the Translate add-on in action. Select some text, go to the Add-ons menu, click Translate and Start. You can select the destination language in the sidebar that shows up. For some reason, only a few destination languages are supported.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtX-R3Jb5xCiDsb0A_RIrpr12ETIKwxoi-z6W8lAl23npE1PIZJKHTYy4AetO71ExD79p3UeKg7x4NndLbLaleV_n8ipVX0vvy5Z4dQfOhbe7fdBNmxU1RyBsSMR3a8K93V3kfo_JpUDGw/s1600/google-docs-addons-3.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lZqX6ocwHWU" width="580"></iframe></div>

Google Drive Add-ons

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The New Google Sheets

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjncK_-ygYssL5vFoyLhPaToRPCA2zIghbecUYybrttIeerkMCWdqcZORycfjYtMYKkRARv6S6CaaAdPsHhaN34XbsOLc90L8R7hoOZ4VV0uU-ZtQ0dHoxQfntt-uWlPOlCsK3C-IcdRFmU/s1600/new-google-sheets-1.png" /></div><br />There's a new version of Google Sheets. "It's faster, supports larger spreadsheets, has a number of new features, and works offline," <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/12/newsheets.html">informs Google</a>.<br /><br />Just in case you're wondering how to enable it, you should go to <a href="https://drive.google.com/settings?id=docs">Google Drive's settings page</a>, enable "Try the new Google Sheets" in the Editing tab and click "Save". You'll get the new version of the application only for the files you create from now on. The existing files will still open in the old Google Sheets.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLzlr-GWFMdVRnGdcAuEKACZ5dfSYM-L8VYPvJ-tLwhrky7Cu17rpNA1vy1PKvhWgoUaB127t4IZGxda699cx-QD5c1dAcBe2QOspg0-RdcIGuvmlgLpPLHQV0QoyEufQMtud8vuz8ENjl/s1600/new-google-sheets-settings.png" /></div><br />There are some missing features in the new Google Sheets (protected sheets, spell check, publishing) and this shows that this is an early release.<br /><br />So what's new? You can create and edit spreadsheets <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012">offline in Chrome</a>, just like in Docs and Slides. The new Sheets is designed with performance in mind and handles huge spreadsheets: it supports 2 million cells of data and all of the <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2505921">other limitations</a> have been removed. You're no longer limited to 256 columns per sheet. Other improvements: spreadsheets load faster and scrolling is smoother.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZulEOwFMWMwmH_84_N4bMdWYrbuk5LKC54GXqfv5OUjtI4Rw25LV2ZkU7VzaOx3L-vr-et4XvlIePFolb5XbQFiBmLyeKond_Y9rWlGFnSDc0VDAVIh3e6l-t3-FNuL_NXJ8Rd7imJVAG/s1600/new-google-sheets-ui.png" /></div><br /><br />There are some <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3316222">new formula editing tools</a>. "In the new Google Sheets, we've made it easier to build complex formulas in your spreadsheets. For example, you'll now see syntax highlighting, which shows you the argument in your function that you are working on, and you'll get more details on how to fix errors in your formula by hovering over them." Google also added 24 new functions, including SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and AVERAGEIF.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyjvJDzWfSakjaIvHdaBhDsEhsO5i2ofoKMHhbY57FYabbCHUiJV39YDiU6PCgyJpbJhs4MbEgWjsvYSXrBmeqRVUIfP6FbNzkXWdA4wEOeyFm7cBBGJ0OD-JrKpWeh8LomGjQJos8A6QZ/s1600/new-google-sheets-functions.png" /></div><br />Another new feature is called <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3540681">filter views</a> and it lets you create, save and share filters, so you can get different views of your data without disrupting how others are viewing your spreadsheet.<br /><br />"In the new Google Sheets, you can apply <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/78413#formulas">conditional formatting using a custom formula</a>. This allows you to apply formatting to a cell or range of cells based on the contents of other cells."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dZ_hEp4YLiaxbTXkjoIch4Mm3d-uI4CQ8i5H-RuY_GGqXGrumknEW2CSh2pIjS7zx_DlXaJ6lt25GQZzaOTB9nDjU_CEK9qoV2pyoQ-BgxS8Er8A4RrDID8nnDXMjPtul9-JY_L8s4Zy/s1600/new-google-sheets-2.png" /></div><br />You can also add a color to each of your sheet tabs, <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/117105#pastespecial">paste a rotated version</a> of the copied cells from a column to a row or from a row to a column, <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/141704#newsheets">restrict find and replace</a> to a range of cells and <a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/56470">apply custom formatting</a> for currencies, dates, and numbers.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfGtLlqQGMsMd5dHrYzzNuBYizrfRL1F_IuAUw4pG16VmwD_2iDKJw3EzAxJmgSdbqVj7QAU5X7Ney5CsDQKVJr0ySFtAlKUfiOux2yogSPEuaHOgUBxQ0CXC40pwFUFZbNxAZAcJ6fyZ/s1600/new-google-sheets-3.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9AyoRkr4I3U?feature=player_embedded" width="580"></iframe></div>

The New Google Sheets

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Faster Spell Checking in Google Docs

Now it's easier to check the spelling of a Google Docs document or a Google Slides presentation. Just click the Tools menu, select Spelling and review each spelling suggestion. You can click "change", "change all", "ignore" or "add to dictionary". After performing an action, Google locates the next spelling mistake, so you don't have to manually find it.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYU3tXdkqqGi-C3brnl3H4cNUcmWr01-ms4VuhC7FERL8Zd4mi4g5ej_Ne3ZLh5BAo-iaY1vtd1c4ggEpsFsNHxg66V8-FJNVH_kYUszoBnkyOMoGlp17J9y2S5h9HjA6jYddVuEDFYLT/s640/google-docs-spell-checking.png" /></div><br />Until now, you had to right-click each spelling mistake and select one of the options. Google Docs flags the mistakes with red underlines, so you can still fix them manually.<br /><br />"The updated spell check lets you check the spelling of your entire document or presentation at once, instead of having to resolve misspellings individually," <a href="https://plus.google.com/112893701314508522131/posts/dogXC55rEjt">explains Google</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinYYtRkSPssfoJxTezMs_dQHHZr1IWRvVwKPdeRo-TTFCA7iAPGhctHQ10lE4NuMi8YatxyXycYRB1EY7wftYLpYW3WeKcH6Ipq9WUSU2CRdwaLrRa0jbmv7ouRiVvRSuwZ3N6DSpi4LWl/s640/google-slides-spell-checking.png" /></div>

Faster Spell Checking in Google Docs

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Google Docs Shows Link Suggestions

I've always wanted a tool that lets you highlight a text and quickly link to the top search results for that text. Now this feature is available in Google Docs and Google Slides: select some text, right-click and select "Link". Then you can pick one of top Google search results, one of your other documents or the headings/bookmarks that match the text selection.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BoO9HP2FuLC1p3WskRolj739IkGubRrS4mWD5wlGVNiWNzMvwiTGeyFMwaVYSWyrqsqzEVWn4rnUVycc-Ly5ujy5kxaQ3cbnSLi1Br5dGf9iJopgiAE6b951C7STlXkE6IDbGhTcBrw7/s640/google-docs-link.png" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqATAd8-FFL9DYpRkpyz62ImF7cB52Q99o64sGnRb7P3fzuSQOC5FQn2Zobd6dKb9scNoDm4dCO5mcW4ztarTdcp9VAiXvoHeI4ohEi8oQjjsthAI1pLilRt5Sq9LyBpKbRNJVtJlD0j4b/s640/google-docs-link-3.png" /></div><br />Type something in the "link" box and Google will show results for the new text:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh8OGCcYdGiyVGn2_KN1-JC49TN60xsOE7SBOyVm6HC73Y8DeczpjxVJQgqa3E-8Fg7z5QdfSECwqlvLSvgJm4nOVinYw5Hrg_gjiRiomr231yDtTEalYsef_a1Z_E7_njjyKH8a49aPnv/s640/google-docs-link-4.png" /></div><br />You can also use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+K) or use the link button from the toolbar.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuLYtlROYCIV42ajh54bFp89qycO2hf14kpEiG6D6Nu-Hs39UQMHpVuqXroRTqe0yfaDFgCm_w6tRQDSA-xj5PYl_yI_9ZGCABuYANvx3dbXMgGybDOt-1epjot2NYLa4W0M-s_UCSs5L-/s640/google-docs-link-2.png" /></div><br />{ via <a href="https://plus.google.com/112893701314508522131/posts/D9VeMBxq4L4">Google Drive's Google+ page</a> }

Google Docs Shows Link Suggestions

I've always wanted a tool that lets you highlight a text and quickly link to the top search results for that text. Now this feature is a...

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