Google Docs is an online word processor that enables you to create, format, and edit text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. The word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs that can be used in Google Docs are very similar to related programs such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint in MS Office. Even though Google Docs cannot do as much as these programs, the related Google programs provided by Google Docs help to make collaboration relatively easy. For example, you can still adjust margins, spacing, fonts, colors and other of the same things that you would normally do in Microsoft Office. Google Docs also allows you to share your documents with people, chat with them as you all are working on the document, and give them the power to edit, comment, or add to the document. Documents created in Google Docs can be translated to different languages and emailed to other people as attachments. This would be very useful if you had to do a group presentation or individual report for your Spanish class. If you accidentally deleted something on the document you were working on, you can view the document's revision history and go back to any of the previous versions. Even if you would like to keep working on your document, it can be saved to your desktop as a Word file, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file. To use Google Docs, all you need is a Google account. For more information on Google Docs, check out this introduction video: Google Docs video.
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N/A. (2015). Overview of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google. Retrieved from https://support.google.com/docs/answer/49008?hl=en
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(2015). CEID100: Digital Skills and Innovation for the Global Economy: Module 3. Ryerson University Blackboard. Retrieved from https://de.ryerson.ca/de_courses/templates/default/?c=7E0A0209B929D097BD3E8EF30567A5C1
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N/A. (2015). Overview of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google. Retrieved from https://support.google.com/docs/answer/49008?hl=en
(2011).Close-up of the Google.com search homepage displayed on a LCD computer screen with silhouette of a man's head out of focus in the foreground. shutterstock. Retrieved from http://www.shutterstock.com/en/pic.mhtml?id=169451723
(2015). CEID100: Digital Skills and Innovation for the Global Economy: Module 3. Ryerson University Blackboard. Retrieved from https://de.ryerson.ca/de_courses/templates/default/?c=7E0A0209B929D097BD3E8EF30567A5C1