okay so if you want to create a Google
Doc the first thing that you want to do
is go to docs.google.com in your browser
and that'll bring you to the starting
page of Google Docs and there's just a
few things I want to point out here you
might not see anything in the recent
documents if this is your very first
time but what you will see here is two
different options to start with you can
start with a blank document which is
what we're going to do or you can start
with a template these templates will
have a little bit of content and some
styling done in them already and they
could be super helpful but we're gonna
start from scratch so that we can show
you what to do so I've left clicked on
blank and it brings up this clean slate
there's no title yet so let's go up to
the title and let's just give it the
name of tutorial and once you type it if
you click out of it it's saved with that
new name in the cloud and your Google
account you don't have to go to file and
save there is no option to save here
because every time you type or change
something that's saved automatically so
let's get out of that menu left click on
the document again and the blinking
cursor means that it's just waiting for
you to type some of the basic formatting
is already done for you so there's a
standard font selected standard font
size and it's waiting for you to type
normal text so normal text would be the
body of the document so if I take my
mouse and I left-click and drag this is
the way that you select text if you want
to change all of it and let's just say
that this is actually going to be the
title go up to where it says normal text
these are preset styles and let's just
change it to a title sorry guys that's
actually the title of the document and
then at the end of the line when you're
done with that line you're ready to
start a new one if you hit the enter key
then Google knows that you've moved on
and it's back to normal text again so
let's say actually this is the body of
the document
I'm gonna do a second line here as
another paragraph and I'm going to use
this to show you a few things so if you
notice the spacing in between the title
and the first paragraph is a lot larger
than this first paragraph in the second
paragraph that's all controlled by these
styles but you can also control them by
going to format and line spacing if you
want more or less space before and after
your paragraphs it's much better to do
them here than doing something like if
you go to the right and you press ENTER
again so at this point we have the title
and we have some body text we're gonna
add a few more things and it's going to
make it easier to see what's going on if
we go to view and let's just open up the
document outline it's going to come on
the left hand side and it's going to
show you the different parts of your
document let's go to the beginning of
the body and we want to insert a line
above the body text and below the title
so I'm gonna type the enter key right
now this is giving us a space in here
let's go into that space and we're going
to say part one the start of it all and
I want this to be a header so go to
where it says normal tax easier styles
and let's get it a heading one and as
you can see the document outline is
starting to build out right now so
here's your title if I click on that
it'll bring the cursor up to it and if
you go down to part one and it'll bring
the cursor down there now omitted ly if
you only have one heading in one title
the outline is a little bit excessive
right now as you can see what you're
doing as you start to build out your
story the outlines going to be a little
bit more helpful so if you have a second
header now you're going to start seeing
it there let me go back to the body text
I'm going to hit enter again and I'm
going to put in another type of header
so make this a heading 2 and if you look
at the document outline it's going to be
helpful it's going to indent the second
header because it's a heading 2 and then
when you go back to a heading 1 it's
going to be more of a main part
so if you ever do a table of contents
it's gonna look a lot like your outline
this is going to give you a preview of
the structure now I'm gonna bring up a
document that has a lot more text in it
so we can go over a couple of different
things that you might want to change so
let's go to file and I brought it up
here I just called the example document
so you know what it is so this is an
example document and I have a few
different things going on here so one of
the things is there's a heading one
which we went over then there's some
body text then I had another header and
I wanted to put it on a second page I
scroll down you'll see it but I didn't
just hit enter a bunch of times until it
went on the second page if you do that
and you add text later it's going to
push everything down and create a
problem you actually want to go to
insert break and do a page break it's
already done so if I do it again and
I'll actually have two page breaks but
that's the proper way to add another
page if you backspace it'll get rid of
it so just do that now I only have two
pages again and if you look at these
paragraphs so I'm going to highlight all
three of them by left clicking with the
mouse and dragging these are justified
on the right but the last one isn't so
there's two different types of alignment
going on here let's select the third
paragraph and I'm going to zoom out a
little bit so the menu bar shows all the
options and let's look at the different
alignment so if I left click on a line
the first two paragraphs are justified
and if you look at this little icon you
see that the right hand side is lined up
but this paragraph is left aligned
if you justify these it'll add a tiny
bit of space in between each word just
enough so that it pushes the right-hand
side to be equal and if we want to apply
that to third paragraph as well just go
to alignment click justify and there you
go that's done there's no inner key
after each of these lines you just keep
typing user spaces and letters as usual
and then you apply this styling
afterwards if you try to do that by
using the space bar in the inner keys
things won't work out very well for you
if you want to do some custom styling
let's just select this first paragraph
and let's say hey
this normal text styling is great but I
really want it to be italicized you can
control all of those attributes by these
options that are in the middle of the
menu bar so we could just select italics
click on it only the paragraph that you
highlighted will be italicized if you
also want the second one to be exactly
like this first one just go to the first
paragraph click on the format painter
and then go to where you also want to
apply that style select it and it'll
paint the format from the first
paragraph on to the second paragraph so
the last basic thing that I want to go
over that Google Docs will do for you is
that it will format a list sleeping bag
and a pillow and a tent are the types of
things that I want for this weekend this
is a list of things and if it's fine
this way then just leave it but there's
a couple different options on how you
can make it look like a list so I've
left click that's selected all three of
the lines so that Google Docs knows what
I'm wanting to format and my options are
that I can create it as a numbered list
and if I use this little drop-down
there's different types of numbered list
so you can have main steps be a number
and then sub steps be a letter and so
forth or you could go over to just the
bulleted list option
I just left collect it you can see that
it applied it and there's different
types of bulleted lists as well so the
one that I've applied if a sub if you
use the sub item it's going to be an
open circle so let's add one here so you
can see it so I'm gonna press enter
after sleeping bag then I'm going to
press tab that's going to get me to a
second level of this list and we want it
to be a warm sleeping bag because it's
the fall one it's gonna get down to 40
degrees Fahrenheit tonight and as you
can see we've made a beautiful document
that's all the basics that you need to
know to type a paper and have it look
good so I hope that was helpful if you
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