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Searching your Google Drive
TweetTweet I am really liking Google Drive (http://drive.google.com). At the top of your Gmail you may still be seeing “documents” listed instead of drive, if you can I would recommend changing to...
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Sharing a Google Drive Folder in 5 easy steps
TweetTweet In Google Drive you can create a folder. Whatever permissions you set on the folder, documents in that folder would have the same permissions. I like to encourage students to make a Google...
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Converting Office documents to Google documents
TweetTweet Remember the old days when would make a document in Word and then email it to someone and they would edit it and email you back the attachment? Sometimes it got confusing as to which copy...
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View Recent Items in Google Drive
TweetTweet Recent When going to your Google Drive you may want to start by looking on the left hand side for “Recent.” This is where you will find the files you were recently working on. If you have...
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Upload a File to Google Drive by Dragging the File In
TweetTweet If you have files on your computer you do not need to use the upload icon in Google Drive. Simply drag the file icon into the Google Drive folder or list.
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Sharing a Folder in Google Drive
TweetTweet One might argue you do not need folders if you use Google Drive. The search box at the top of drive searches not only the document title but also the body of the document (and does an OCR...
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Saving Files in the Cloud
TweetTweet If you are using Google Docs or Microsoft SkyDrive saving your files has become incredibly easy. There is NO save button. All of your edits are automatically saved. All of those times you’ve...
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Keyboard Shortcuts in Google Drive
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Tricks: Search Google Drive – Filtering your search
TweetTweet Have you noticed the search box at the top of http://drive.google.com? This allows you to search your files in Google Drive. Since the search will look through not only the titles of your...
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Creating Google Drive Templates
TweetTweet If you use Google Drive you will want to use the template gallery. http://drive.google.com/templates The template gallery has many templates for resumes, lesson planning, presentations,...
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Down The Rabbit Hole: Connect More Apps
TweetTweet In Google Drive when you click on the “Create” button you might notice “Connect more apps” at the bottom of the options. I have now sucked an hour of your life surfing through the apps you...
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Shared With Me
TweetTweet If someone has shared a Google Doc with you, you will find that document under “Shared with Me” in Google Drive. If the document is one that you are just going to look at occasionally you...
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Google Drive Folders – Options
TweetTweet Within Google Drive you are able to make and share folders. One of the best features about folders is if you share the folder with collaborators then all of the documents within the folder...
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Let’s “Add-On” in Google Doc’s: Table of Contents
TweetTweet Recently Google has added “add-ons” to Google text documents and Google spreadsheets. These add-on’s add functionality to your Google Doc’s such as printing labels, inserting charts and...
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Search Google Drive – Title:Keyword
TweetTweet When you do a search in Google Drive you search for more than just the title of the document. Google searches the entire body of the document. Thus when I do a search for “parabola” any...
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Finding Your Recent Google Docs
TweetTweet Today I had created a document brainstorming some ideas. I created this document in one of my folders. Coming home, I wanted to access the document quickly. Google Drive In Google Drive...
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New Google Drive: Saving a Document in Multiple Folders
TweetTweet In the old Google Drive you were able to hold down the Shift key and click on multiple folders that you wanted to organize your files into. In the new Google Drive this does not work. Move...
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New Google Drive: Link to a File
TweetTweet While Google Apps are a productivity suite, I more so think of them as a collaboration suite. The new Google Drive now makes it even easier to connect and collaborate. Select a file in...
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New Google Drive: Setting Your Upload Options
TweetTweet In the new Google Drive it is more obvious how you can upload files. Click on “New’ and choose “File upload.” Alternatively, you can simply drag the files right into Google Drive if you...
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New Google Drive: Link to a File
TweetTweet I have to admit now that I am really enjoying the new features of Google Drive. It took me a couple of days to get used to double clicking to open a file, but now it is second nature. I am...
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