How to use Docs

Headings, fonts, colours, lists, checklists, alignment, line spacing and styles, from the toolbar and the Format menu.

Paper size, orientation and margins, with a ruler to drag them. What you see is what prints.

Set them once and they appear on every page.

Insert tables, and images from your computer, a link or Drive. Resize images freely. Add a page break to start a new page.

A table of contents built from your headings, and bookmarks to jump around a long document.

A side panel of your headings. Click one to jump to it.

Search the document and replace words in one go.

More than one person can work in a document at the same time and see each other's changes.

Select some text and comment on it. Reply, and resolve the comment when it is dealt with.

Switch to suggesting so your edits show as proposals. The writer accepts or rejects them one by one or all at once.

Look back at earlier versions and bring one back. How far back depends on your plan.

Share a document with teammates who can view it or edit it.

Check spelling, add your own words to the dictionary, and see the count of words and characters.

Look up a word without leaving the document, or speak and have your words typed for you.

Add sources and a list of them, and number the lines of the page.

See the differences between two documents.

Turn on screen reader support, which reads out formatting changes and page moves, or a clear outline around whatever has the keyboard focus.

Search every menu item by name, see keyboard shortcuts, and read what is new.

Start from a template, or save your own document as one for next time.

Download as Word, PDF, plain text, web page or Markdown, or print.

Send a document to a conversation in Chat, or attach it to a task in Flow, without downloading it first.

Every document is kept in Drive, so it is found, organized and shared like your other files.