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Questions tagged [google-docs]

This tag should be used for questions about the [software] "Google Docs" from the company Google and how you can achieve something with this software.

This tag should be used for questions about the , or more specific , "Google Docs" from the company Google and how you can achieve something with this software. You should use this tag if you want to ask how you do something when writing with this software, such as changing the layout of your pages or printing in a certain way that is required by your type of writing or your publisher.

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Can Google Docs be used for technical product documentation?

My company is hiring a contract technical writer to improve our product's documentation. As the maintainer, I'm currently using Google Docs, and very happy with it's collaborative nature (multiple simultaneous editors, web based, comment/response…
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Way to create an interactive dictionary for Google Docs?

I'm using Google Docs to both write a story and to create a dictionary of sorts for ease of writing. I'm trying to figure out a way that I can either have a word suggestion box pop up on Google Docs with the list of words I have in my descriptive…
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Alternative sites to Google Docs

I'm looking for websites that let me write and store my stories online, so I can keep developing them no matter where I go. (Because of my devices specs, sadly Dropbox — and similar options that need you to install software — can't really…
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How do you make page numbers in Google Docs?

I really need to know how to make the page numbers in Google Docs look like a real book. I know how to do the page numbers, but how do you do them half on the right side and half on the left (like an actual book has them so that the pages on the…
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