The images are portrait shaped, but I would prefer a landscape option. There are four colour schemes to choose from, but they are quite similar. There are buttons to add a large or small image to the current document, or it can be downloaded and saved to disk as a 600 x 820 pixel PNG file. Select Word Cloud on the Add-ons menu and a sidebar opens showing a word cloud created from the document. There are Classic and Modern options and Modern is the best. Common words like ‘and’, ‘the’ and so on, are not included in the word cloud, so the image can be used to highlight just technical terms and names used in a document. These are interesting graphics that can be added to documents and web pages where they add interest to visually dull text.
Each word is displayed in a different colour. The size of each word depends on the number of times it is used, with the most common word being the largest. Word clouds are those graphic images that consist of a collection of words taken from a document. This is another great add-on for Google Docs. This means you can go through a document and highlight the important points, click a button and a new document is created with them. The highlight name/function is on the highlight in the sidebar so you can see what it is for.Īnother excellent feature of Highlight Tool is the ability to export highlights to another document. Multiple groups of highlights are very useful when you have different types of documents and a red highlighter for one type of document can mean something else in another document. You choose how many highlights, select a colour for each of them and name them. Each set can be named and it can have its own collection of highlights. Click Highlighter Library and you can create sets of highlighters. It is enabled from the Add-ons menu and this opens a sidebar on the right.
There is a very simple highlighter built in to Google docs, but this one offers more features. This is a very useful tool for reviewing documents and it makes highlighting blocks of text very easy. It does this very well and it is recommended. Its aim is to increase the number of fonts massively to give you more design and appearance choices when creating documents. It may not have your favourite font or a specific font you want to use, but there are many alternatives. This does not allow you to add your own fonts and you are limited to the 1200 or so provided. The text size is not changed, only the font, so you might want to use the font size selector in the toolbar.
Select it in the Add-ons menu and it opens a sidebar on the right and displays around 1200 fonts.Īll you need to do is select some text and click the font you want on the right. If you cannot find the right font for your document, get the Extensis Fonts add-on. However, tens of thousands of fonts have been created by designers and there are some fantastic ones. There are around 32 fonts to choose from in Google Docs and they are pretty boring, like Arial, Comic Sans, Verdana, Times New Roman, and so on. It is not perfect and there are a few flaws, but this is still a great add-on and it becomes more useful as documents grow in size. People with extremely large documents, 50+ pages for example, find it slow. It would be better if it showed the heading the top of the window. I found it tended to move the document so that the heading clicked was at the bottom of the screen and I needed to scroll up to see the section. It does not support page numbers, it just links to headings. It enables you to keep an overview of the document structure and sections constantly visible and you can easily jump back and forth between sections. Click a heading or subheading link in the sidebar and the cursor is moved to that position in the document. It recognises the different heading styles and indents subheadings to make a neat table of contents. It is basically a list of links created by looking through the document for headings.
Google extensis fonts free#
This free Google Docs add-on opens a sidebar at the right side of the document that displays a table of contents.
Google extensis fonts install#
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