G Suite For Dummies

Get fast answers to your G Suite questions with this friendly resource

G Suite For Dummies is the fun guide to the productivity suite that's quickly winning over professional and personal users. This book shares the steps on how to collaborate in the cloud, create documents and spreadsheets, build presentations, and connect with chat or video. Written in the easy-to-follow For Dummies style, G Suite For Dummies covers the essential components of Google's popular software, including:

• Google Docs for word processing
• Gmail for email
• Google Calendar for scheduling and day planning
• Google Sheets for spreadsheet functionality
• Google Drive for data storage
• Google Hangouts and Google Meet for videoconferencing and calling capability

The book helps navigate the G Suite payment plans and subscription options as well as settings that ensure your own privacy and security while operating in the cloud. Perfect for anyone hoping to get things done with this tool, G Suite For Dummies belongs on the bookshelf of every G Suite user who needs help from time to time.

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Paul McFedries has worked, programmed, and even talked to computers large and small since 1975. Primarily a writer, he has worked as a programmer, consultant, and database and website developer. His more than 95 books have sold 4+ million copies worldwide.

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Get fast answers to your G Suite questions with this friendly resource G Suite For Dummies is the fun guide to the productivity suite that's quickly winning over professional and personal users. This book shares the steps on how to collaborate in the cloud, create documents and spreadsheets, build presentations, and connect with chat or video. Written in the easy-to-follow For Dummies style, G Suite For Dummies covers the essential components of Google's popular software, including: Google Docs for word processing Gmail for email Google Calendar for scheduling and day planning Google Sheets for spreadsheet functionality Google Drive for data storage Google Hangouts and Google Meet for videoconferencing and calling capability The book helps navigate the G Suite payment plans and subscription options as well as settings that ensure your own privacy and security while operating in the cloud. Perfect for anyone hoping to get things done with this tool, G Suite For Dummies belongs on the bookshelf of every G Suite user who needs help from time to time.

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Introduction 1

About This Book 1

What You Can Safely Ignore 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Keeping Your Affairs in Order 5

Chapter 1: G Suite: The 50¢ Tour 7

What is G Suite? 8

What You Get with G Suite 9

Using Apps Online - Really? Here are the FAQs 10

Introducing Online Collaboration 14

Going Mobile 15

Chapter 2: Taming the Email Beast 17

Rhymes with Email: Getting to Know Gmail 17

Touring the Gmail app 18

Touring the Gmail Inbox 19

Showing your good side: Adding a profile photo 20

The Outbox: Sending an Email Message 22

The basics: Composing and sending a message 22

Easier addressing: Using the Contacts app 24

Inserting attachments and other hangers-on 25

Creating a signature 25

Scheduling a send 27

Undoing a send 28

The Inbox: Handling Incoming Messages 29

Refreshing your messages 29

Reading your messages 29

Easier reading with the Reading pane 30

Attending to attachments 32

Responding to a message 33

Creating a task from a message 34

Setting up a vacation responder 34

Selecting messages 36

Dealing with the Onslaught 37

Cleaning out your inbox 37

Labeling your messages 38

Muting a conversation 42

Snoozing a conversation 42

Searching for messages 44

Filtering your messages 45

Chapter 3: Places to Go, People to See: Managing Your Calendar 47

Navigating the Calendar Window 48

Changing the Calendar View 50

Time Traveling: Changing the Date 51

Setting Your Social Schedule: Entering Events 52

Adding an event 53

Editing an event 55

Lather, rise, repeat: Creating a repeating event 56

Scheduling an all-day event 59

Psst: Setting up event notifications 60

Nudge, nudge: Creating a reminder 62

Things to do: Creating a task 63

Going Calendar Crazy: Adding Even More Calendars 66

Chapter 4: Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Managing Your Contacts 69

Eyeballing the Contacts App 70

What's with those "other" contacts? 71

Configuring the Contacts columns 72

Changing the sort order 73

Populating Your Contacts List 74

Adding a contact from scratch 74

Adding a contact from Gmail 75

Going legit: Turning an "other" contact into a real contact 76

Adding multiple contacts all at once 77

Importing contacts 78

Managing Your Contacts 79

Editing a contact 80

Grouping contacts with labels 81

Merging duplicate contacts 82

Exporting contacts 83

Deleting contacts 84

Doing Stuff with Your Contacts 85

Emailing a contact 85

Emailing a contact who has multiple addresses 86

Emailing multiple contacts 86

Calling a contact 87

Surfing to a contact's website 87

Part 2: Making Stuff: Documents, Spreadsheets, and More 89

Chapter 5: Getting Started with Docs 91

Opening Docs 92

Touring the Google Docs Home Page 92

Creating a Shiny, New Document 94

Checking Out the Document Screen 94

Dealing with Documents 96

Saving your work - just kidding! 96

Naming a new document 97

Opening an existing document 97

Saving a copy of a document 99

Learning Some Editing Basics 100

Navigating with the keyboard 100

Selecting text 102

Deleting stuff 102

Deleting characters 103

Fooling around with special characters 104

Stating your case: Uppercase versus lowercase 106

Adding links 106

Setting tab stops 107

Search and Ye Shall Replace 108

Finding stuff 108

Some notes on searching 109

Finding-and-replacing stuff 110

Checking Spelling and Grammar 111

Handling spelling slip-ups 111

Handling grammar gaffes 112

Chapter 6: Looking Good: Formatting Documents 115

Making Your Characters Look Good 115

Getting familiar with fonts 116

Formatting with fonts 118

Avoiding the ransom note look 120

Copy text formatting by "painting" it 121

Making Your Lines and Paragraphs Look Good 121

Getting your text ducks in a row: Aligning paragraphs 121

Breathing room: Changing the line spacing 123

Giving paragraphs some elbow room 125

Keeping stuff together 125

Indenting paragraphs 126

Using Styles to Make Looking Good Look Easy 128

Style advantages 129

Applying default Docs styles to avoid reinventing the style wheel 130

Updating a default style to taste 132

Saving your updated styles 132

Telling Docs to use your updated styles 133

Resetting the default styles 133

Making Lists, Checking Them Twice 133

Putting your affairs in order with numbered lists 133

Scoring points with bulleted lists 135

Image is Everything: Adding Graphics 137

Inserting an image from your PC 138

Inserting an image from the web 139

Inserting an image from Drive 139

Inserting an image from Photos 140

Inserting an image from a URL 140

Inserting a photo from your PC's camera 140

Setting a few image options 141

Chapter 7: Fiddling with Document Layout 143

Building a Table with Your Bare Hands 143

What is a table? 144

Inserting a table 145

Populating a table 145

Adjusting column widths 146

Selecting table cells 147

Setting table properties 147

Inserting a new row or column 149

Deleting a row or column 150

Merging table cells 150

Headers and Footers from Head to Toe 151

Adding a header 151

Adding a footer 153

Opening the…