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LinkedIn Learning

Google Docs Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to use Google Docs from this course covering the essentials for creating, editing, and sharing documents online.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Create, collaborate, and be great with Google Docs
1. Get Started with Google Docs
  • Sign in and create a doc
  • Name, save, and access a doc
  • Navigate Google Docs
  • Use a prebuilt template
2. Edit Google Docs
  • Format text
  • Use and create styles
  • Insert lines, footnotes, and page breaks
  • Work with headers and footers
  • Add page numbers
  • Create a table of contents
  • Set page margins, orientation, and color
  • Set view options
  • Change page orientation on a section
3. Work with Images
  • Insert, resize, and crop an image
  • Work with image placement
  • Insert a Google drawing
  • Insert an image into a header
4. Create Tables, Columns, and Charts
  • Insert and work with tables
  • Format a table
  • Separate text into columns
  • Create and insert charts
5. Work with Google Docs
  • Copy, rename, and move a doc
  • Delete and restore a doc
  • Work with previous revisions
  • Research a doc with the Explore tool
6. Collaborate on and Share Google Docs
  • Print, email, and download a doc
  • Share a doc with others
  • Edit simultaneously with another user
  • Find docs others have shared with you
  • Add comments to docs
  • Spell-check and translate a doc
7. Use Google Docs on a Mobile Device
  • Navigate the Google Docs app
  • Work with docs in the app
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jess Stratton

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