Google Docs Low Vision: Creating and Opening Documents

Hi, my name is Vikki Vaughan, and in today’s workshop, we’ll learn how to create a Google Doc. We’ll also discuss opening a document we created in the past.

Let’s open our Chrome browser and type in docs.google.com into our address bar. Once we’ve logged in, let’s move our mouse pointer to the Start a New Document Pane. From here, we have several different choices. We can start from scratch by selecting the button with a plus sign or if we prefer, we can choose from the Templates Gallery.

Let’s start a new document by selecting the plus sign.

And there we have it, a shiny new document, ready to receive our latest musings!

Now who doesn’t love a good shortcut? I know I’m crazy about them, and I think you’ll like this one, too!

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