Creating an app window shortcut for Google Docs on ChromeOS. Click Create, and your shortcut is ready. Google Docs will automatically open in the new window, where you can get to work (Figure B).

Using Google Docs offline is helpful if you don't have a steady internet connection or want to edit files without Wi-Fi.

So you've finally had enough of frantically searching for one of your 500 poorly-labeled files and are ready to organize your Google Docs. It's pretty silly and weirdly inconvenient, but you can't ...

Start by opening Google Docs and tapping the plus sign in the lower-right corner to create a new document. You can also open a document you already have in your Docs history or Google Drive.

You can comment in Google Docs using a computer or the Google Docs mobile app on your phone or tablet.

Google will likely ask you to re-login to your account for security purposes. Next, scroll down the list and look for an app called Google Docs.

You can also head to the dedicated Google Docs portal page, where the templates are listed above your recent documents (click Template gallery to see more).

If you don't mind longer boot times, it's fairly easy to make Windows auto-load your favorite apps and/or documents.

Apple includes a free, basic word processing program called TextEdit on all machines running OS X, its computer operating system. Use TextEdit to open Word documents on your Apple computer.

You’ve changed the normal text style for the current document, but to apply this to every Google Docs document going forward, you need to open the Format menu again, then select Paragraph styles ...

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