Formatting

Occasionally you may want to indicate separation between elements in your document and a standard line break won’t work. Use these steps to add a horizontal line in Google Docs. Sign into Google Drive and open your document. Select the point where you want to add the line. Click the Insert tab at the top […]

Formatting text in a document provides you with a number of ways to emphasize certain selections of text. You might choose to bold text, or italicize it, or you could choose to underline it. Underlined text draws the attention of the reader, and can be an effective way to highlight important information that they need […]

Occasionally you may need to make a large part of your document uppercase. If the existing selection is in lowercase or a combination of lower and uppercase letters, then you might be worried about the prospect of needing to retype the entire thing. Fortunately there is a formatting option in Google Docs that make it […]

Changing the individual formatting options for a word or paragraph in Google Docs can require several different sequences of tasks. You might have underlined text, changed its font or color, or performed a number of other changes that modify your content in some way. While removing many of these changes is as simple as performing […]

Google Docs provides you with the ability to add tables to your documents so that you can present your data in a clear manner. When you create a new table in Google Docs it is going to have lines that separate all of the individual cells in the table. This is meant to keep the […]

Have you ever been reading something online or in a document and the author chose to draw a line through some of the text? This is called “strikethrough” and it’s a helpful formatting choice for indicating that something should be disregarded, but may still be of value to the reader. Most word processing applications have […]