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 and edit your document
- Create, view or download a file
- Create a file from a template
- Change the colour of text, objects and backgrounds
- Copy and paste text and images
- Delete a document, spreadsheet, presentation or video
- Add or delete columns in a document
- See and use suggested content in a document
- Use document tabs in Google Docs
Format your document
- Change page settings on Google Docs
- Change a document’s page setup: pages or pageless
- Change how paragraphs and fonts look
- Work with links & bookmarks
- Use headers, footers, page numbers and footnotes
- Add a title, heading or table of contents in a document
- Add page breaks & move margins
- View document outlines, summaries, rulers and non-printing characters
- Use line numbers in Google Docs
Insert items
- Add items with the @ menu
- Learn how to use drawings and markups
- Add and edit tables
- Insert or delete images and videos
- Insert emojis and 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 and tools
- Check your spelling and grammar in Google Docs
- Manage auto-correct 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 and edit with your voice
- Keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs
- Troubleshoot errors while you edit Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Vids
- Use add-ons, Apps Script, AppSheet and 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 out what's changed in a file
- Use comments, action items and emoji reactions
- Send signature requests and 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