Google Drive 6 New Features
Google's added some amazing new features to its online
productivity tools such as Sheets, Docs and Slides. These cool new features are
not only for students, since they're available to use for anyone with a Google
account.
Voice Typing
Google's been perfect in voice recognition for performing
search queries and now putting those abilities in Google Docs. Now user can
dictate instead of manually typing, just speak it what you wanna write, with support
of 40 different languages.
To use this function, open a document from Google Drive in
Chrome web browser. Then click on Tools and choose Voice typing. Then adjust
microphone setting, start speaking and Google will write what you say,
including punctuation marks.
Research from Google Docs
In the Android app of Google Drive, there is a new Research feature
for Docs that allow you search from Google without closing your documents. You
can use this amazing feature to read and find information, add images links from
Google Images, copy and paste text into your document.
Templates
Google tools are all getting improved, well-designed
templates that allow you quickly design a resume, slideshows, budgets and much
more. Go to the individual tool for Sheets, Docs and Slides you'll see many
templates at the top. Click on More link to see extra features, organized by category,
such as school or work.
New Changes Button
In shared Google documents, you can easily see activities
performed by contributors and collaborators. A "See new changes" link
in the toolbar that let you gets a run-down of the changes and adjustments made
by your collaborators.
Explore in Sheets
A wonderful feature is added to spreadsheet tool, Sheets,
will automatically create many types of charts for you. This allows you take
quick look to your data.
Those charts will update automatically according your data
in sheet. You can highlight special fields to make charts on for particular
data.
New Forms
Google Forms are a perfect way to get data on almost
everything from a group of peoples, offering you full flexibility with the each
question you ask. With the new Forms feature, you can customize colors, change
background colors and insert GIFs and images to your survey.
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