Google Docs
You can create, edit, share, and print documents with Google Docs. Use templates for work, school, or personal documents. Collaborate in real time on your computer, phone, or tablet with anyone with a Google Account.
Get started with Google Docs
Create & edit your document
Format your document
- Change page settings on Google Docs
- Change a document’s page setup: pages or pageless
- Change how paragraphs & fonts look
- Work with links & bookmarks
- Use headers, footers, page numbers & footnotes
- Add a title, heading, or table of contents in a document
- Add page breaks & move margins
- View document outlines, rulers, & non-printing characters
- Use line numbers in Google Docs
Insert items
- Add items with the @ menu
- Learn how to use drawings & markups
- Add and edit tables
- Insert or delete images & videos
- Insert emojis & special characters
- Link a chart, table, or slides to Google Docs or Slides
- Use equations in a document
- Add citations and a bibliography
- Insert smart chips in Google Docs
- Insert place chips
- Insert, edit, or delete watermarks
- Insert third-party smart chips from other applications
- Insert custom building blocks
- Insert and use variable chips
- Use AppSheet smart chips in Google Docs
- Insert building blocks in Google Docs
Print, publish, or change viewing settings
Spell-check, shortcuts & tools
- Check your spelling & grammar in Google Docs
- Manage Autocorrect in Google Docs
- Count the words in a document
- Search and use find and replace
- Translate documents or write in a different language
- Use Smart Compose and Smart Reply
- Use Markdown in Google Docs, Slides, & Drawings
- Type & edit with your voice
- Keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs
- Troubleshoot errors while you edit Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, & Vids
- Use add-ons, Apps Script, AppSheet & Looker Studio
- Google Workspace Add-ons
- Use Google Keep in a document or presentation
Collaborate on your documents
- Share files from Google Drive
- Suggest edits in Google Docs
- Find what's changed in a file
- Use comments, action items, & emoji reactions
- Send signature requests & sign documents with eSignature
- Add meeting notes to Google Calendar events
- Use Google Meet with Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides
- Assign tasks from Google Docs
- Request access to the eSignature feature in Google Workspace