Google Docs is a site that allows you to type and save many forms of documents, such as reports, book projects, and many more options. You can write anything in the app. For instance, I’m writing a book, using Docs.
The Add Button
The “add” icon is in the bottom right corner of your screen. All of the documents that you have started will be in the middle of the screen, (depending on how many documents you have) and in the top left hand corner of the screen, near the time and date, there will be “three bars”. If you click on the “three bars”, you have the option to change the account you are using. You also have the options of “recent”, “starred”, "shared with me”, “offline”, “trash”, “google drive”, “settings”, and “help and feedback”. To start, you will usually be on “recent”. “Recent” is all of the recently opened documents. Then, if you move to “starred”, you will find all of the documents that you have starred. In “shared with me”, all of the documents that your friends or teachers have shared with you will be here. Moving on, the next selection you will find is “offline”. In “offline”, you have all your documents that you can edit offline with. “Trash” is the area that all of us are probably familiar with, but, if you aren’t, it’s where all of the documents that you delete go. If you select the “Google Drive” option, it sends you straight to your “Google Drive”. “Settings” is where you go to learn about Google Docs. Lastly, you find a button called “help and feedback”. “Help and feedback” is exactly what it sounds like. It gives you help from Google Docs, and you can send feedback to Google about how their app is doing. All in all, the “three bars” is where you go for the different forms of areas in Docs. The “folder” icon is right next to the “magnifying glass” icon, which is the search area. The “search” icon is where you search for your documents. If you click on the “folder” icon, it shows what documents that you can get from your drive, without taking you to your drive. Below the “folder” icon, there is “three dots with three lines next to the dots”. If you click on that option, then you go to a list. The list is exactly what the icon looks like. The name of the document is on the left, and the date it was last opened on the right. The icon that is under the folder is now like a “grid”. If you click on that icon now, it will show the documents as a grid.
Another icon is the “share” icon. On the iPad, once you open up a document, there is a little “human figure with an addition sign” next to it. Click on that icon, and then put someone’s email into it. Once you push send, the person you sent it to will immediately receive your document. Once you push the “edit button”, a “toolbar” pops up. On that “toolbar”, you have multiple choices. You have the bold, the italicize, the underline, and the “cross-out”. Like all of the names of the icons, that is what they do. When I typed the names of these icons, I used what they do, for all of them but the cross-out. The cross-out is only available on the iPad. Since I am typing on the iPad, this is what it looks like. Cross-out. You can also insert things, such as “pictures”, “links”, “tables”, “horizontal lines”, and “page breaks”. All you have to do is select the “plus” sign once you open your document.
One of the pros of this app is that you can write whatever you want, whenever you want. Another pro is that you can edit the documents offline. Another pro is that you can add as many docs as you want.
A con is that you can’t merge two different documents into one. One other con is not all of the icons are in the same places on the computer. There also aren’t a lot of the same icons in use on the computer.
I personally think that Google Docs is a brilliant app. There are many uses for this app, whether it’s used for educational uses, or for business purposes, or just for fun. Google Docs will be one of the most useful apps, in my opinion. And there you have it! My personal point of view on Google Docs!
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