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How to wget files from Google Drive

Google Drive - public on the web selection option

A long time ago, I had occasion to WGET files from WeTransfer to a server after being sent a large file from a client, and being located somewhere with poor broadband. This happens to us less regularly now, but sometimes you maybe will find yourself in a situation where you want to get a file …

Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Docs

Have you ever been on Google Docs and wondered “isn’t there some shortcut key for that?!?” Quite often, there is. Below are many of the popular keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs. Hint: you can find these while you are in Google Docs by pressing ctrl + / (on Windows) and obtain the full list at …

Google service outages 14th December 2020

Google experienced multiple outages today, including across YouTube, Gmail and Docs. For a fuller breakdown of the services and regions affected, see TechCrunch. All services now appear to be back online and operating normally. To see the Google Workspace status dashboard, click here.

Gsuite / Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more

Recent security updates to Google’s mail services mean that Gmail and Google Workspace accounts are no longer allowed to attach files with the .js extension (this includes zip files which contain .js files). Get Google’s Google Workspace for your Business Here – fully managed or 20% off. This is in addition to the following file …

How to subscript in Google Docs

As I was recently writing a piece on how to superscript in Google Docs which went into a bit more detail about this specific feature than our big list of Google Docs hotkeys article, I thought it might be nice to share the instructions on how to do “subscript” in Google’s market leading word processing and collaborative document preparation tool!

Manage your Google Drive files from (any) Desktop with Google Drive File Stream

If you’re looking to gain some cloud based storage space, or even to manage your Google Drive files more simply from your Desktop (without having to go online) there has always historically been a Google Drive connection to desktops, but the most recent way to do this is to download and use Google Drive File …

How to change margins on Google Docs

If you’re a Google Workspace customer or Google Account free user, and you gain the great collaborative and time saving benefit of using Google Docs for your Word Processing, maybe you wanted to learn how to do certain little tricks!? In this tutorial, we describe how you can change the margin sizes on Google Docs …

How to superscript in Google Docs

If you’re like us, you’ll love using Google Docs for collaborating on work with your colleagues. Its super simple, and the end product looks just great! But sometimes, you’ll find yourself looking for an option or function that you just can’t figure out. For those times, we produced a big guide to all the shortcut …

Justification in Google Drive / Docs Tutorial

Are you looking to find out how to “justify” your text in Google Docs? The tutorial below will help you to achieve just that! Get Google’s Google Workspace for your Business Here – fully managed or 20% off. What is Justified Text? Justification in this sense, means that every line is the same width. Justified …