- [Instructor] All right, if you're using Google Docs
and you wanna apply different types of styles,
so I have some listed here,
all of these can be done
with a little shortcut that we can use.
So you don't have to go up to the menus at all.
Ironically, let's start by going up to the menu
because what you need to make sure
is when you go to tools and preferences
that you have a check mark
next to automatically detect markdown, right?
So after you make sure that's checked,
you click okay.
And then this document gets the superpowers
and you don't have to use your mouse anymore
to do the styling.
So let's start out with bullet points.
I'll press enter to get a line with normal text here.
And all you have to do for a bullet point
is just use an asterisk and a space, right?
So that just puts a bullet point right in there.
And then you can type in your first item.
When you hit a enter,
it knows that you're still doing bullet points
and you can just type in your second item, right?
So that pretty quick, right?
We didn't have to use the menus
and have to move our hand over to the mouse.
And we're going to do the same for numbered lists.
And for numbered lists,
all you need to do is start out with a one and a period
and then hit the space bar.
So that's your first item there for the numbered list.
You hit enter.
It automatically goes to two.
And we'll do the second item here.
Hit enter again.
And if you hit the tab key,
it will nest it and give you a sub item automatically.
All right, we'll go down to the next item.
It's inserted some space here.
We'll ignore that for now.
And now you can do check boxes without going to the menus.
You just do an opening bracket.
So on a U.S. keyboard,
that's right to the right of the P key.
And then you close the bracket.
Hit your space bar.
And there you have a checkbox.
So if that's a task,
you can come in here and mark it as done, right?
So you've actually been able to use markdown
for these items for a while in Google Docs.
Whether or not you knew it's another story.
I didn't know it.
But they just recently added more.
So we'll talk about these new items also.
This is April, 2022.
If you don't have these yet,
you will probably have them soon.
The first example is italics,
and I'll just put it right off to the right here.
For italics,
if you want to emphasize something,
you can just start out with an asterisk
and don't do a space.
But we want to emphasize and end it with an asterisk.
Okay, so even though this is still a header,
it applies the italics to all of these letters.
All right, we'll come down the bold,
and for bold, we're just going to do two asterisks.
We'll say that makes that important.
The asterisks cut it off.
And for italic and bold,
if you guessed,
you may have guessed right,
it's three.
All right, strike through is a little bit different.
It's just a minus sign,
but that is how you can get rid of something.
And now we'll do a link.
So let's come down,
we'll add a little bit of space,
and we will link to,
this site is,
oh, we'll do this,
this, the name of the link,
so the name of the link will be site.
And then right after it,
you wanna use the parentheses,
type the name of the website
end parentheses, hit space.
And there you go.
You have a named link.
You didn't take your hand off the keyboard.
Last thing I wanna show is headers.
So you can do an H1 all the way to an H6
by using the pound sign or hash,
whatever you wanna call it.
If we look above at the actual word headers,
it's a heading two.
So we'll go below.
We'll do three pound signs and we'll say
next subject.
So that is an H3.
If you saw that we have a document outline here,
in the next video,
we're going to go through how to create a table of contents.
It's going to work similar to this
but it will be embedded into your document.
See you in that next video.
Thanks for watching.