Thursday, June 9, 2011

Pagination Comes to Google Docs

As more time passes the more everything is 'going to the cloud.' This means that our documents, music, bookmarks, and backups are being stored on the internet. Things like word processing are doing the same.

With Google Docs you can make and create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and have them automatically save to your Google account, 'in the cloud.'

If you're already a Google Docs user, there may have been one fairly large glitch in the system. When you create a document it stays as one document. You often have no idea how many pages you have.

Google recently fixed this with Pagination. Now, you not only know how many pages, but  headers show up at the top of each page, manual page breaks move text onto a new page and footnotes appear at the bottom of the pages themselves. 




You can still edit your document in a continuous layout (like before) by selecting "Compact" from the "View" menu.





Hope this helps you be more productive with your Google Docs!