Google Apps Hacks

12 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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On Windows, you can attach a custom keyboard shortcut to desktop shortcuts. To do so, just right-

click your shortcut named “New Google Spreadsheet” and click into the Shortcut key eld. Enter

Ctrl-Alt-S—or another shortcut, though some shortcuts are reserved by Windows and cannot be

chosen—and approve the dialog. Now, you can press Ctrl-Alt-D anywhere in Windows to launch a

new spreadsheet with Google.

You can repeat the same process for your “New Google Document” and “New Google Presentation”

shortcuts. Pick Ctrl-Alt-D, or Ctrl-Alt-P, or any other keyboard shortcut you can easily remember,

and you will now be able to quickly launch Google Docs word processing and presentation

documents from Windows.

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You can also create a shortcut to any existing Google document of yours. Maybe there’s a shared

To Do list for your project at work, and you access it quite regularly; speeding up the launch process

would be nice.

First, open up your document in the browser as usual by going to http://docs.google.com and

clicking its title. Most browsers will now display the “favicon” icon at the left side of the address bar.

Drag and drop this favicon onto your desktop, and the shortcut will be created for you automatically.

You can close the document now and double-click the icon later on to launch it again. ...