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UGLY Syllabus: Google Drive
Learn about Google Drive login, navigation, document creation, and sharing.
- Copy this file to your own Google Drive by doing the following:
- Press File
- Press Make a Copy. This creates your own version, independent of mine and your peers'.
- Play with font size, typefaces, color, highlighting, drawing, etc. DO NOT ADD OR REMOVE TEXT!
- Share the file with me:
- Click Share in upper right
- Enter my email, then press send!
Document Formatting
Make the syllabus look professional, in both Drive and Word.
Paper Formatting in Drive
- In Drive, open your "ugly" syllabus.
- Press ctrl + a to select everything, then use to erase the format of your twisted creation!
- That won't clear up the text arrangement, though, so you'll need to do those by hand
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- Or, you can use the Revision History feature to turn back your edits to the beginning.
- Click File, then See revision history.
- Choose Show more detailed revisions in the bottom right, then choose the earliest revision and click Restore this revision.
- Once the file is restored to its less-ugly state, download the file to Word. (File -> Download as... -> Microsoft Word)
- Open the file in Word.
- Read over the document, cleaning up any errors in grammar and punctuation.
Apply Style Format in Word
- Click Change Style in the Home ribbon. Select Style Set, then Default (Black and White).
- Select the title, then click Title in the style window.
- Select each main heading and select Heading 1 in the style window after each.
- Select each subheading in the document, then select Heading 2 in the style window after each.
- Select the bullet lists, then select the bullet icon in the Home ribbon.
- Select the numbered lists, then select the numbered list icon in the Home ribbon.
- Select the regular paragraphs, then select Normal in the style window.
Previous Projects
Copy/Paste Email URL
Learn to copy (ctrl+c), cut (ctrl+x), paste (ctrl+v), and paste without formatting (ctrl+shift+v). Find an awesome thing online and email it to me in a proper hyperlink:
- Navigate to the website, copy the URL
- Open Gmail in another tab, put my email address in the To: box
- Type a subject alerting me to the amazing thing
- Type "Link" in the body
- Highlight "Link," then press ctrl+k
- Paste the URL into the box, then press enter
- Send the email
Better Gmail Names
If your email name is not your name:
- On your computer, open Gmail. You can't change your username from the Gmail app.
- In the top right, click Settings.
- Click the Accounts and Import tab.
- In the "Send mail as" section, click edit info.
- Add the name you want to show when you send messages.
- At the bottom, click Save Changes.[1]