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.

Auteur

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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• Apply tips designed to improve efficiency
• Create docs or spreadsheets and hold virtual meetings
• Adjust privacy settings to keep work secure Collaborate securely in real time More than 2 billion people and millions of organizations use G Suite, Google's slick collection of productivity apps. The suite helps teams work together wherever they may be. Need to co-edit a report in real time with a colleague 3,000 miles away? No problem. Want to discuss that report on a video meeting? You can do that, too! G Suite for Dummies is your all-access pass to the friendly skies of online collaboration, from creating files and keeping them secure to working faster, smarter, and more effectivelywherever.

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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</p...