this short video is about five google docs tips every beginner should know and
these are the five things which we will be discussing in this video number one
how to set page margins and layout in Google Docs number two how to change
spacing to double spaced 1.5 spaced how to check word count and now Google Docs
has a feature of simultaneously checking the word count while you are typing then
we will see how to add page numbers and there are few things about page numbers
which you should know and then finally we will see why there is no option to
insert a text box in Google Docs and how can we insert a text box in Google Docs
so let's get started before we start if you our first time on my channel I make
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dive in to our topic the first thing is page margins and
layout and these settings are available in file and page setup and you can
change all the four margins top bottom left and right and you can also change
the page orientation from portrait to landscape you also have the ability to
change page sizes if you were for example printing a document and then you
can also change page color and when you click here you have the option to change
colors so now if I change this margin to let's say 2 inches as you can see that
now my margin has increased so let's undo this and move to our next step our
next tip was how to change the spacing and that is available in format and then
line spacing and here you can change to 1.5 our double spacing are you can
change to any custom spacing if you want so if I click on double spacing my
spacing will be doubled and if I want any customized spacing so I can click on
custom spacing and then I can put any factor here for
but 1.2 means 20% more than the single spacing now the next thing is word count
and word count is a tool which is available in tools section so if you
click on tools and word count so here you can see how many words this document
has how many characters and characters excluding the spaces now there is
another option now if you check this box then Google will displays your word
count while you are typing so let's check it out click this and press ok and
here are my word counts and if I type anything so let's say I type a word here
so as you can see my word count has increased so let's undo both of these
and now as a beginner you always want to have page numbers and there are a few
things you should know about page numbers so format and page numbers is
the point where you can find the page numbers so here you can set these
options whether you want your page number in the header in the footer
whether you want to show the first page number and from what number you want to
start your page numbers so you can set all these options here and click apply
and as you can see that my page number is in the header and then you can put
anything here for example page 1 then you also can select this and apply all
these formatting for example bold you want to change the font or anything so
you can do this here as well so let's undo this as well and now the last point
was how to insert a text box so I make a space here in my Google Doc and here I
want to insert a text box but in insert there is no option for a text box this
is because in Google Docs if you want to have a text box you have to insert a
drawing so therefore we click insert drawing and then new and when you get
this drawing console here you have this text box and if you click on that and
then this cross here will appear and then you can select the size of the text
box and you can write you text here and let's say I copy this few
times so that I don't have to write a long text and no apparently there is no
formatting available but when you click on these three dots more then you have
the ability to make it bold underline or change the color of this text so all the
options are here you can also set the alignment and whatever you do with
normal text so once you are done you just click Save and close and know your
text box is here if you click on here it will look like an image and there are
three options at the bottom in line wrap text or break text so normally the best
option is the wrap text and once you select the wrap text then all your text
will be wrapped around this text box so you can just for example I can put some
delete here and this is my text now in continuity and my text box here here so
this X just like an image and you can resize here with these and your text
will automatically wrap around the new size of the text box so this is how you
insert text box in Google Docs so these were my five tips for you today thanks
for watching and see you next time