15 useful add-ons for Google Docs
Browsers / / December 19, 2019
Learn how to add to the usual service of new features for working with text, tables, and even code.
How to Install
Add-ons for Google Docs are set via a special menu, which you can move to the right of the document editing window: select "Add-ons" and "add-ons". In the window that opens, you can search and find the right tools for the title.
Search results according to Russian speakers will not give - only on English-language, so it is best to know exactly what you need. That is why we have gathered the most useful tools in a single list.
Note that many additions duplicate Google standard tools, but do not exceed them in their capabilities. There are at least three tools that are better not to be replaced by equivalents.
1. google Keep
This is a proprietary service for taking notes, recording which can be used as a basis for the text in Google Docs. To work with these two services in parallel, it is sufficient to use the Google Chrome browser extension installed Keep. To display the Notes panel in typing, will only turn on Keep notes in the "Tools".
Price: 0
2. google Fonts
An impressive set of fonts available directly from the menu in Google Docs. Simply click on the selected font and select "Other fonts" in the window that opens. A list can scroll down for a long time, new versions are loaded automatically. Immediately there and search for the name.
3. voice input
This is also a built-in Google Docs, only works with Google Chrome. It allows you to type the text dictation and voice commands to perform. Russian language is recognized. This feature is hidden in the "Tools". Automatic Diagnosis microphone (in my case it was absent). just click on the icon that appears necessary to start recording.
And now for a third-party add-ons, allowing to extend the capabilities of the service.
Useful add-on for Google Docs
1. Styles
A set of 20 different styles to your text. There are options for both reports, and informal texts with different colors and fonts. The only drawback is that not all fonts support Russian language. Supplement accessible through their top menu. Styles are applied by pressing the Apply Style button.
Price: 0
2. Glavred
This is one of the few additions that allow to check the Russian text for the presence of verbal garbage, stamps and signs of bad syntax. The scan starts right from the menu, add-ons, and then in the sidebar will display the total score, the number of words and characters stop words.
3. Goophy
The simplest tool for insertion into the document GIF-animation. In the sidebar, enter a keyword and select an image from the list. Query can be administered both in Russian and in English. To insert must click on the animation, and then to the place in the text where it should be placed.
Price: 0
4. Insert Icons for Docs
A huge collection of different icons to select a color and fast insertion into the document. Available two categories, each of which more than 900 miniatures. If necessary, each can manually resize.
Price: 0
5. footnote Style
This addition allows you to apply a single style for all footnotes in the document. Configure each separately is not necessary. Just select a footnote, assign it the desired style and apply it to all the other pressing a single button.
Price: 0
6. Code Blocks
Supplement to highlight code syntax in various languages programming. It will be a good helper when you need to discuss the code, make changes to the overall work, or to comment on someone else's mistakes. Just select a snippet of code, choose a language and set the color theme. Prior to use, you can use the preview.
Price: 0
7. doc Tools
A set of tools for rapid changes of register word in the selection of the text. One touch can make all the first letters in uppercase or all different case in all the words to the opposite. There are user-friendly features highlight text, change font size, tables and lists, sorting, converting words into numbers and numbers into words. The latter, however, works only with the English language.
Price: 0
8. Table of Contents
Automatically creates a clickable table of contents in the sidebar for easy navigation of large documents. Supplement collects headlines and allows you to instantly jump to a specific section of text. By changing the structure of the material contents can be updated.
Price: 0
9. Easy Accents
A simple add-on for use in the text of accents and similar symbols used in the French, Czech, German, Italian and many other languages. In the sidebar you just select the language. To apply accents, there are other means.
Price: 0
10. Text Cleaner
This addition allows you to adjust the filter cleaning function text formatting. If the standard tool removes everything separation, breaks, indentation, then Text Cleaner allows you to set limits. For example, you can clear the formatting of the entire text, but keep with the tab.
Price: 0
11. Table Formatter
Large set of templates for tables with different color schemes and the ability to create their own versions. Selected scheme one click you can apply immediately to all tables in the document.
Price: 0
12. Better Word Count
This supplement helps to adjust the filter count the number of words and characters. With it, you can not take into account the titles of certain styles and strikeout text or, conversely, to take into account even the characters in headers and footers, and footnotes.
Price: 0
13. Translate +
Standard addition Translate supports a limited number of languages. Russian among them there. But Translate + translates into any language, and even the original itself recognizes. In the case of the transfer of large structures result does not always meet expectations, but for the words and phrases you can use this tool.
Price: 0
14. GD2md-html
This addition allows you to instantly convert all text from the document into a format Markdown or HTML. It copes not only with titles and various secretions, but also pictures, tables and other content.
Price: 0
15. Image Extractor
With this add-on you can extract images from documents and save them on your computer. Standard tools it can be done only through the download of an HTML document, which is not always convenient. The only negative supplement that Image Extractor is not on all systems working correctly.
Price: 0
see also
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