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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word count tool. Look at the menu and locate Tools. Click on it to see how many: Pages, Words, Characters, and Characters without spaces. It sure saves a lot of time trying to count them.
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.
to share a document select 'share' a 'share with poeple and groups' window will appear enter the email address of your choice
and select their permissions on what they could do.
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.
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to upload a file you must first download the file, then go to your drive and select 'new' then select file upload
to download a PDF file open the document then select 'save as' and select 'PDF document'
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.
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Highlight the text and select link,copy the URL of your choice,boom hyperlink
Columns: Columns run vertically (up and down) in a spreadsheet or table.
Row: Rows run horizontally (left to right) in a spreadsheet or table.
Cell: Each rectangular box in a spreadsheet and table is referred to as a cell. In a spreadsheet, each cell has a specific name identifying it's location by row number and column ID name.
End Rhyme: An end rhyme is when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
Internal Rhyme: An internal rhyme is a rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.
Near rhyme: A near rhyme in when the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly.
Rhyme Scheme: A rhyme scheme is the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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to add a table go to format and select table then choose its size as needed then you can click on the sides change its size
key vocab
Text-to-speech (TTS): TTS is a type of assistive technology that reads digital text aloud. It's sometimes called “read aloud” technology. With a click of a button or the touch of a finger, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio.
Speech-to-text (STT): Speech-to-text is the process of converting speech input into digital text, based on speech recognition.
Translate: To translate something is when you turn text into your own language into another language or vice versa.
Online Dictionaries: Online dictionaries are dictionaries that are available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site.
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you can download a text to speech extension called Read&write for google chrome,your microphone must be on, then enable it to speak and have your words turned in to text on your computer. you can also listen to the text and have it read to you.