{"id":117,"date":"2013-11-20T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T01:40:43","slug":"google-docs-8-more-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs &#8211; 8 more tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article with the details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/8-google-docs-tips-you-may-not-have-known-about\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the summary:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Show all keyboard shortcuts:\n<ul>\n<li>On Mac, press<strong>\u00a0\u2318\u00a0<\/strong>+\u00a0<strong>\/<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On Windows, press<strong>\u00a0Ctrl\u00a0<\/strong>+\u00a0<strong>\/<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use Gmail keyboard shortcuts in List View\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Navigate to the next item in the list<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>K<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Navigate to the previous item in the list<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>X<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Select\/unselect an item<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Star\/unstar an item<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Less distracting &#8211;&gt; Edit Fullscreen [View menu&#8211;&gt; Fullscreen. Hit the ESC key to exit.]<\/li>\n<li>Hack the Header styles to quickly add formatting: \u00a0\u00a0<em>To create a new header style, simply format your text how you\u2019d like and highlight it. Then go to the\u00a0<strong>Title<\/strong>\u00a0menu, click one of the right facing arrows next to a header, and select\u00a0<strong>Update \u2018heading X\u2019 to match<\/strong>\u00a0with X being the header number.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Use the Google Templates to get started: \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/templates\">directory of templates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Let Docs create the Table of contents &#8211; only works if you&#8217;ve used the header levels in the Title menu. Insert menu &#8211;&gt; Table of Contents<\/li>\n<li>Use Conditional Formatting to change the color of a spreadsheet cell based on the contents. For example, you can have the cell color automatically change to red if the test score is less than a 75.<br \/>\n<em>To do this, hover over the column header and click the arrow icon that appears to bring up a menu. Then click the\u00a0<strong>Conditional formatting\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0option towards the bottom.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Extrapolate sets of related terms. You&#8217;ll just <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/8-google-docs-tips-you-may-not-have-known-about\" target=\"_blank\">have to read the origina<\/a>l for this &#8211; but it IS pretty cool &#8211; useful is another question altogether, though!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article with the details can be found HERE. Here&#8217;s the summary: Show all keyboard shortcuts: On Mac, press\u00a0\u2318\u00a0+\u00a0\/ On Windows, press\u00a0Ctrl\u00a0+\u00a0\/ Use Gmail keyboard shortcuts in List View J\u00a0\u00a0Navigate to the next item in the list K\u00a0\u00a0Navigate to the previous item in the list X\u00a0\u00a0Select\/unselect an item S\u00a0\u00a0Star\/unstar an item Less distracting &#8211;&gt; Edit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Docs &#8211; 8 more tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,38,28],"tags":[35,6,36,37],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-google-more","category-student-devices","tag-docs","tag-google","tag-tips","tag-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42ogX-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1987,"url":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1987","url_meta":{"origin":117,"position":0},"title":"Tired of Tapping? 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