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.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-14-2022
G Suite 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 shortcuts that are common to the G Suite 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
As proof of chat's ascendance in the corporate communications realm, you need look no further than the myriad ways that G Suite enables its users to message each other: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet. Before moving on to Google Chat, the next few sections take a quick look at these alternative chat methods.
Article / Updated 08-24-2020
If you own or have joined just a few groups in Google Groups (part of the G Suite of applications), locating the group you want isn't too much of a bother. That is, you choose My Groups from the main menu and then select the group you want in the list that appears. Even if your My Groups list is quite long, you can do a couple of things to make finding a particular group easier: If you joined or created the group relatively recently, choose Recent Groups on the main menu.
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.