Chromebook For Dummies

Chapter 7

Proceeding with Word Processing

In This Chapter

Creating new Google Docs documents

Formatting and manipulating text

Saving, exporting, and sharing documents

The Chromebook is not just for fun and games. It is a powerful tool for students and business users alike. However, what makes the Chromebook powerful is not the hardware; it’s the unrestricted access to — and complete integration with — the Google platform.

One key component to the Google platform is its web-based office tools. The name often used to describe the entire suite of these tools, however informally, is Google Docs. However, this can be confusing: Docs is also the official name of Google’s web-based word processing tool within that suite. For the purposes of this book, then, when I refer to Google Docs, I’ll be referring to Google’s word processor.

Docs is a powerful word processor that offers an extensive amount of functionality. The goal of this chapter is not to dive into every nook and cranny of the Docs application. Instead, I’ll just cover the basics. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to open and create documents; write, format, and otherwise manipulate text; and save, export, and share ...