Articles & Books From Google Products

Google Workspace For Dummies
Easy advice for getting the most out of Google Workspace for school, work, or personal use Google Workspace For Dummies is here to show you the tips and tricks for upping your productivity with Google's cloud-based software suite. This book includes jargon-free instructions on using Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Chat, and Meet.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-17-2024
Google Workspace offers a huge number of keyboard shortcuts that not only enable you to navigate the app interfaces quickly but also let you easily invoke many app features and settings. Here you see some of the more useful shortcut common to the Google Workspace apps, as well as some handy shortcuts you can use with Gmail and Calendar.
G Suite For Dummies
Get fast answers to your G Suite questions with this friendly resource G Suite For Dummies is the fun guide to the productivity suite that’s quickly winning over professional and personal users. This book shares the steps on how to collaborate in the cloud, create documents and spreadsheets, build presentations, and connect with chat or video.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
Google's G Suite is a set of applications that work together; G Suite apps are designed to tear down silos. In the world of business jargon, a silo is a person or department that can't or won't share information with other people or departments in the company. Not all that long ago, all employees were silos in a way.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
A chat is ideal for quick bursts of one-on-one conversation, but Google Chat, which is part of the G Suite application package, rocks a bunch of features that enable you to shift your interactions from conversation to collaboration. How to chat with a group If you have a question to answer, a controversy to settle, or a detail to hash out, the quickest and easiest way to get it done is to gather everyone involved into a group chat.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
In this article, I take you through ten G Suite tips and techniques that can help the working-from-home work effectively from home.As I was writing this in the spring and summer of 2020, the entire world was coming to a virtual halt in order to stop — or at least slow down — the spread of the novel coronavirus that emerged in late 2019.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
The more you use the G Suite apps, the more information about you gets stored online. You can quickly end up with a big chunk of your professional and personal lives stored in the cloud, so it pays to take whatever steps are required to keep that data safe and control who can see it and when.In this list, you investigate ten ways to enhance the security and privacy of your Google account and your G Suite apps.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
Gmail, one of the G Suite apps, offers a relatively simple interface on the surface, but dig a little deeper and you see that the app has a deeper side—the Settings page and its seemingly endless supply of options, configurations, and customizations. There is a lot of stuff in there.Yep, sure, lots of the settings should be labeled For Nerds Only.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
You can use the Keep app, one of G Suite's set of collaboration tools, to create simple text documents for things such as to-do lists and meeting notes. A word processing app such as Docs is useful for creating complex and lengthy documents. However, this powerful tool feels like overkill when all you want to do is jot down a few notes.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
You use G Suite's Forms app, as its name implies, to construct forms that gather information from people. It might be a form that enables people to register for an event, order a product or service, give feedback about something, take a survey, or test their knowledge with a quiz. Whatever the content of the form, the Forms app gathers the responses automatically so that you can later analyze them.