Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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[G] Tips & Tricks: Our favorite shade of beige, the ruler

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:29 PM PST

Official Google Docs Blog: Tips & Tricks: Our favorite shade of beige, the ruler

Recently, we launched a rebuilt document editor from the ground up. Just like some colors stand out more than others, there are some features in the new editor that are particularly shiny. While features like real-time collaboration, more fonts, and an advanced revision history tool are like neon green, crimson red, and ultramarine, the ruler tends to be viewed more like a beige.

But the ruler, like beige, can certainly have its charms. You can use the ruler to position your text anywhere on the page. And that makes it a powerful tool.

There are a number of blue shapes on the ruler -- these affect the positioning of each paragraph, and are either indents or tab stops.


All paragraphs have three indents: the first line indent,the left indent, and the right indent.

Dragging the first line indent adjusts the left padding of the first line of a paragraph, while the left indent adjusts all subsequent lines of a paragraph. If you drag the left indent along the ruler, the first line indent will follow it. The right indent adjusts how far a paragraph extends toward the right side of the page.

Tab stops

Sometimes you need to control the display of your text with more granularity than what you can accomplish with just indents. That's where tab stops come in handy.


With tab stops, you can align text relative to a specific spot on the ruler. So that means that a left tab stop will left align text to a position on the ruler, a right tab stop will right align text to a spot on the ruler, while a center tab stop will center-align the text.

To move between tab stops, you can press the tab key, and subsequent text will align with the tab stop. You can add multiple tab stops by clicking on a spot on the ruler and selecting the appropriate tab stop.

You can move the position of a tab stop by dragging it around the ruler. And to remove a tab stop, simply drag it off the ruler.

Margins

Tab stops and indents are great for adjusting individual paragraphs, but sometimes you want to change alignment for an entire document. For that, you can use margins.

You can adjust the left and right margins by dragging the gray space on either side of the ruler.

You can also adjust the left and right margins, as well as the top and bottom margins of your document from File -> Page setup.


Once you get going, like with beige, it's a bit surprising all of the things you can do with the trusty ruler.

Posted by: Luiz Pereira, Software Engineer
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/tips-tricks-our-favorite-shade-of-beige.html

[G] Happy holidays from Google Chrome: free holiday Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 01:11 PM PST

Official Google Blog: Happy holidays from Google Chrome: free holiday Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet

Not too long ago, flying home for the holidays meant disconnecting for several hours until you touched down at your destination. Today, Wi-Fi technologies allow us to stay connected even at 30,000 feet above the ground, so we can read the news, browse the web (to beat the long-haul boredom) and send that last-minute planning email before the family reunion. This holiday season, there will be more connected flyers than ever before.

On the Chrome team, we're big fans of innovations that make our lives on the web and in the browser better—and it all starts with more ubiquitous access to the Internet. So for this holiday season, we've teamed up with AirTran, Delta and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

We were excited by the response from last year's free holiday Wi-Fi program, and thought that this would be a perfect holiday gift to help you stay connected to your loved ones as you head home. You can find out more about this partnership at www.freeholidaywifi.com. If you haven't tried Chrome yet, remember to download the browser before you take to the skies, or try it when you're back on the ground.

Posted by Sundar Pichai, VP of Product Management
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-holidays-from-google-chrome-free.html

[G] AdWords: 10 years of your success

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:12 AM PST

Inside AdWords: AdWords: 10 years of your success

In 2000, just a couple of years after Larry and Sergey founded Google, we launched our online advertising program, AdWords. The story of AdWords is literally the story of you, our advertisers and partners. We're all deeply inspired by your ambition, creativity and innovation as we've all worked to build this new online advertising world over these past ten years.

So we felt the best way to mark this moment was to applaud and honor AdWords advertisers by sharing your stories and successes with the world. This December, as part of our AdWords 10th birthday celebration, we'll be publishing a global map featuring businesses who are happy to tell their stories. Join us by creating a short (three minutes or less) YouTube video or written piece (750 characters or less) telling us your story: who you are, what your business is about, how it's grown, and the role AdWords has played in your success.

You can learn more at this website (including submission instructions and sample videos), and we'll keep this blog updated with the latest AdWords 10th birthday news.


Posted by Jason Shafton, Inside AdWords crew
URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/11/adwords-10-years-of-your-success.html
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