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Docs, Sheets, and Slides

What are Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides?

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are productivity apps that let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online - all for free. You can access the documents, spreadsheets, and presentations you create from any computer, anywhere in the world. (There's even some work you can do without an Internet connection!) This guide will give you a quick overview of the many things that you can do with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Google Docs

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:

• Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document
• Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators - right from inside the document
• View your document's revision history and roll back to any previous version]

Google Sheets

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work with other people. Here's what you can do with Google Sheets

• Import and convert Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data to a Google spreadsheet

Google Slides

Google Slides is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here's what you can do with Google Slides:

• Create and edit presentations
• Edit a presentation with friends or co-workers, and share it with others effortlessly

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Bold, italics, and strikethrough. Do you miss the funky fonts and formatting you had in MySpace? Neither do we. Google+ however, gifts you with three simple formatting tricks: *bold*, _italics_, and -strikethrough-.


Tag friends in posts. Get a friend's attention in a post by tagging them. Type "+" or "@" followed by their name. You'll see an autocomplete drop-down menu show up as you type their name, which presumably includes people in your circles and extended circles.

Your friend will be notified they've been tagged in a post, and post visibility will automatically be set to just that person. Don't forget to add more circles and friends (if you want to) before sharing.

Use permalinks. Permalinks come in handy for sharing and cleaner viewing of single posts. Just click the timestamp of any post and you'll be taken to a new page displaying just that post.

Quickly share post on Twitter and Facebook. Oh the irony. To share a post with your Twitter or Facebook network, use the Extended Share for Google Plus Chrome extension. Upon installation, you'll see a new option ("Send to...") below each post in your stream.

Edit photos. Here's a nice feature for any on-the-fly photo editing. Go to your photos (accessible via your profile), select a  photo. Click "Actions" > Edit photo, and you'll be presented with several photo filters. Scroll through other photos in the album for consecutive editing.

Send a "direct message". To send a message to just one friend, tag them in the beginning of a post and let them know it's a private message. Then, comment on the post top establish your own private thread.

Let friends e-mail you from your profile.  With this setting, you can let people e-mail you directly from your profile.

Below your profile photo, you'll see a grayed out "Send an email". Click it, and check "Allow people to email me from a link on my profile". Then adjust the privacy settings below.

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WORLD WIDE WEB

1. On August 6, 1991, the first website http://info.cern,.ch went online.
2. A NeXT computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the  first web browser - WorldWideWeb - in 1990.
3. Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo on the web in 1992. That was an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernetts.
4. It is believed that a turning point in the history of the World Wide Web began with the launch of the Mosaic web browser in 1993. It was a graphical browser developed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing  Applications at the University of Illinois. Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.
5. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web, was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left CERN in October 1994.
6. Archie is considered to be the first Internet search engine. It was the first tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files.
7. If you dislike Internet users being addressed to as 'surfers', blame Jean Armour Polly. It was she who coined the term "Surfing the Internet".
8. Most people tend to treat the Internet and the Web as synonymous. They, in fact while being related, are not. Internet refers to the vast networking infrastructure that connects millions of computers across the world and the World Wide Web is the worldwide collection of text pages, digital photographs, music files, videos, and animations, which users can access over the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol to transmit data and is only a part of the Internet. The Internet includes a lot that is not necessarily the Web.