Chapter 5
Getting Started with Docs
IN THIS CHAPTER
Taking a tour of the Docs landscape
Creating, saving, opening, and other document chores
Navigating, selecting, deleting, and other editing basics
Getting AI help to write, revise, and proofread text
Making sure your spelling and grammar pass muster
Google Docs is the Google Workspace app for word processing. Wait a minute: word processing. Ugh. I've never liked the term. It sounds so cold and so, well, computer-like. I mean, processing words? What the heck does that mean? The bank processes checks, the Internal Revenue Service processes tax returns. Who processes words? We write them, play with them, misuse them, misspell them, forget them — but process them? No.
However, the computer geeks of the world decided long ago that that's what digital writing should be called, so it appears that we're stuck with it. Okay, but what is it, exactly? Well, in watch-their-eyes-glaze-over terms, word processing is using a computer to write, ...
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