Format: Format is a menu used to change the way a document looks and is organized, such as the font, font style (title, header, normal), font size, characteristics (bold, italics, underline), bullets, and line spacing.
Insert: Insert is a menu used to access special features such as images, drawings, tables, charts, and page numbers.
Tools: Tools is a menu with additional features that can be helpful such as spelling and grammar check, dictionary, translate, voice typing, and Explore.
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ALL FILES IN GOOGLE DRIVE
Viewer: A file-sharing permission you assign to a viewer with the link so they can only view the document, but cannot comment or edit
Commenter: A file-sharing permission you assign to a commenter with the link that can not only view the document but can also make add a comment to the document.
Editor: A file-sharing permission you assign to the editor with a link where they have full editing rights and can make changes to the file.
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Citation: Information that is needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.
Download: When you want a copy (data) or file from another person, or a web page, you typically click on the file and request to download and save it to your own device. It is an act or instance of transferring something (such as data or files) from a usually large computer to the memory of another device.
.PDF file: PDF is short for "Portable Document Format" which is a file able to be opened by almost any computing device without having to purchase special software. A PDF file preserves the layout, formatting, fonts, and images of a document so that it looks the same on any computing device.
Upload: This is the action or process of transferring a file from your device to another computing device.
example: When a Google document you are working on is saved, it is stored (uploaded) to a Google Drive Computer Server and sometimes on your own computer (this the opposite of download). When you attach a file to an email or message you are sending to someone else, that is uploading it to the email server (or SMS) to send to them where they can download it to their own computing device.
Citation: This is information needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.
Hyperlink: A Hyperlink is an element in a digital document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document or website. It is typically activated by clicking on a highlighted or underlined word or image on the screen.