Google Docs in Practice: Documents, Collaboration and Gemini

What's inside

1. Level 1: What You Have: Plans, IT Controls and GeminiFree
   Find out which Google Docs features, including Gemini, eSignature and approvals, come with your consumer, small business or corporate plan, and which ones IT may have switched off. This course is independent of Google and checks plan details against Google's current pages, with dates.
2. Level 2: Styles: Why They Matter and How to Set ThemFree
   Use paragraph styles instead of manual formatting, update a style to match your text, and save it as your default so every document looks the same.
3. Level 3: Headings, Outline, Contents and Lists
   Use heading levels to build a document outline and an automatic table of contents, and control numbered, bulleted and checklist lists.
4. Level 4: Pages, Pageless Mode and Sections
   Choose between pages and pageless format, set paper size, margins and orientation, and use section breaks to vary the layout within one document.
5. Level 5: Headers, Footers, Page Numbers and Document Tabs
   Add headers, footers and page numbers that change by section, and split a long document into document tabs and subtabs.
6. Level 6: Tables and Images That Stay in Place
   Build readable tables and position images reliably using wrap, alignment and sizing settings.
7. Level 7: Fixing Pasted Mess
   Find and remove stray formatting brought in from email, web pages, PDFs and other editors, and restore clean styles.
8. Level 8: Templates, Building Blocks and Smart Chips
   Speed up repeat work with templates, building blocks and smart chips, and know which ones depend on your plan.
9. Level 9: Long Documents: Bookmarks, Links and Citations
   Help readers move around long reports with bookmarks and internal links, and credit sources with the built-in citations tool.
10. Level 10: Gemini Drafting From Your Own Files
    Use Gemini in Docs to create a first draft from files, emails or other sources you select, on plans that include it, while knowing what is still in preview.
11. Level 11: Gemini Rewriting, Summarising and Fact-Checking
    Use Gemini to rewrite and summarise text, then check its output step by step for invented facts, figures, quotations and references.
12. Level 12: Sharing and Link Settings
    Share documents with the right people and roles, and control link access, ownership and outside sharing, including limits IT may set.
13. Level 13: Suggesting Mode, Comments and Assignments
    Review documents with suggested edits, threaded comments and assigned action items, and resolve them cleanly.
14. Level 14: Version History, Compare and Approvals
    Track how a document changes with version history and named versions, compare two documents, and run formal approvals where your plan includes them.
15. Level 15: Accessibility, Mail Merge and eSignatures
    Make documents accessible to all readers, and use mail merge and electronic signatures where your plan includes them.
16. Level 16: Export to PDF and Word: What Breaks
    Export to PDF and Word, and predict and fix what breaks when Word files move in and out of Docs.
17. Level 17: Final Challenge: From Rough Draft to Report Exam
    Use every skill in the course to turn a rough draft into a finished, accessible, reviewed report and a reusable template.

Access

The first 2 levels are free with a free account. Every level, the podcast edition and the AI tutor come with All Access at £4.99/month or any Creator plan — see pricing.

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