Insert special characters
- On your computer, open Google Docs or Slides.
- Open or create a document or presentation.
- At the top, click Insert.
- Find the character you want to insert:
- To add a character to your file, click it.
- Optional: If you want to add the special character to a spreadsheet, copy it and paste it in a cell on the sheet.
Open Google Docs and create a new document. With the document open, click Add-ons and select Code Blocks from the menu. A new right sidebar will open (Figure A), where you can make use of the tool. Code Blocks is installed and ready to go.
Here's how to add and remove page breaks from your Google Docs documents.
- Click Insert after you've placed your cursor where you want to insert a page break.
- Select Break.
- Click Page break.
- Click backspace to remove a page break if you didn't mean to place it there.
Fortunately,
Word allows you to easily
see where
spaces occur in your documents.
Displaying Spaces in a Document
- Display the Word Options dialog box.
- Click Display at the left side of the dialog box.
- Make sure the Spaces check box is selected.
- Click on OK.
To make tracked edits in Google Docs, pop open the 'Editing' menu at the top right hand corner of your document. Your Google Doc now functions exactly as a Word Doc when you turn on 'Track Changes' You can see who made the change, when they made it and what the change was, just as you can in Word.
This allows you read the document with ease and either leave it unformatted or simply click the undo arrow and all formatting will return.
For Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, select Add-ons > Get add-ons to open a dialog that lists available add-ons.
Changing Default Formatting in Google Docs
- Open a document.
- Highlight the text you want to change.
- In the bar above the text, select the font, font size, paragraph spacing, text color, background color, or any other aspect you'd like to change.
- Select Format.
- Select Paragraph styles.
- Click Normal text.
To access layout options in Google Docs, go to File > Page Setup in the menu. This will open a new window with four key page layout options, including: Page Orientation – Whether to display the page as portrait or landscape.
Convert Files Automatically on Upload
- Click on the settings gear in the top-right corner and select Settings.
- Check the box for Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format and click Done.
Here are some tricks and tips that will help you make your Google Docs look pretty and stylish.
- Paragraph Styles+
- Lucidchart Diagrams.
- Translate.
- MindMeister.
- Change Chase.
- Remove Line Breaks.
- Easy Accents.
- Word Cloud Generator.
Want to get more out of Google Docs for work or school? Sign up for a free Google Workspace trial. You can create, view, and edit Google documents, as well as Microsoft Word® files, with the Google Docs app for Android.
Change line spacing
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the lines you want to change.
- Click Format. Line spacing.
- Select a line spacing option: To change your paragraph spacing, click Single, 1.15, 1.5, or Double.
In text formatting, a double space means sentences contain a full blank line (the equivalent of the full height of a line of text) between the rows of words. By default, most programs have single spacing enabled, which is a slight space between each line of text, similar to how this paragraph looks.
How to double space on Google Docs using the toolbar
- Highlight text. By dragging your cursor over the text, highlight which sections of your document need to be double spaced.
- Click the line spacing icon in the toolbar, then choose “Double”
A 2.0 value will mean double spacing. Remember that the double spacing will take place from whatever part in the text your cursor is positioned. Place your cursor on the very top of the page if you want the entire document to be double spaced.
To change the spacing from a half line to a full line between lines, simply highlight the lines in your draft you want to change to a full line and then click on the italic "T" symbol with a diagonal line through it. The highlighted lines will be changed to double spaced.
Supported file formatsFor documents: . doc (if newer than Microsoft Office 95), . docx, . docm .
The paragraph style you are using probably has the double space attribute set. You can fix it on a paragraph by paragraph basis by clicking, from the Menu Bar, Format > Paragraph and then correcting it from the Paragraph dialog. However, you'll have to keep doing that for all paragraphs in your document.
