Google Docs gets a new insert tool to make life even easier

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Google has added a caller diagnostic to Docs that makes inserting definite items and objects incredibly efficient.

Given I walk betwixt 5 and 9 hours a time wrong Google Docs, I see myself a powerfulness user. So, anytime I tin find a caller diagnostic that makes my beingness easier, I leap connected it. Sometimes those caller features dependable bully connected insubstantial but neglect to truly impressment successful reality. Every truthful often, however, Google nails it.

This clip around, Google deed a location tally with a caller insert tool.

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One happening I'm ever successful hunt of is simply a mode to support my fingers connected the keys and not jumping backmost and distant betwixt keyboard and mouse. This caller insert instrumentality does conscionable that.

The gist of this instrumentality is rather simple: As you're moving done a Google Doc, you tin (without having to entree a toolbar menu) rapidly insert things like

Collaborators
Bulleted and numbered lists
Checklists
Meeting notes (from your Google Calendar)
File attachments (from Google Drive)
Images
Tables
Drawings
Charts
Headings
Dates
Page components (such arsenic leafage numbers and footers)
And more

This caller diagnostic volition beryllium an implicit enactment of caller aerial for immoderate Google Docs idiosyncratic looking to marque interacting with the app adjacent much efficient. And though this caller insert doesn't connection a 1:1 diagnostic equivalent to the Google Docs Insert menu, it does see the astir commonly utilized options inserted into documents.

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How bash you usage the caller insert feature?

First, this caller diagnostic lone works successful the desktop mentation of Google Docs, truthful mobile users are retired of luck.

Using the caller insert instrumentality is precise simple. As you write, benignant the @ awesome and the popup paper volition look (Figure A).

Figure A

From that list, you tin usage your cursor keys to scroll up and down (thereby avoiding utilizing the mouse) to find the point you privation to insert.

At first, it mightiness instrumentality a spot of clip to get utilized to however this works. For example, if you privation to adhd a caller bulleted list, you'd privation to marque definite to benignant the @ quality wherever you privation to commencement the list. Or, you could benignant the archetypal introduction successful the bulleted list, benignant the @ character, and past prime the bulleted database introduction from the menu. This volition effect successful everything successful that enactment being the archetypal point successful your bulleted list.

So, placement of the @ quality is important.

And that's beauteous overmuch it for utilizing this caller tool. I tin archer you this, erstwhile you commencement utilizing the caller @ insert feature, you'll wonderment however you managed without it.

Enjoy that newfound ratio wrong Google Docs.

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