The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Google Apps (G Suite): A Practical Guide to Google Drive Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Forms

Scott La Counte

Sep 2019 · Ridiculously Simple Books

About this ebook

Chances are you grew up a Word and Office user. Maybe you were a rebel and committed your herd to OpenOffice, or, dare I say, WordPerfect—but for the majority of people, our lives were loyal to Microsoft. 

In 2005, a small little startup named Upstartle developed something unheard of at the time: a web-based word processor called Writely. It pioneered the idea of writing on the “cloud” and changed the way people thought about word processing.

Google noticed the little upstart, and in 2006, they acquired the company. The software was abandoned and turned into what everyone knows today as Google Docs. It disrupted the industry—namely, Microsoft’s industry.

Today, Google has a whole suite of productivity apps; from documents to spreadsheets, you can do just about anything from the cloud. Microsoft and Apple have each made big attempts to create cloud-based environments of their own for office productivity, but Google pioneered the idea and its collaborative, online environment make it hard to beat. It’s become so feature-rich that many businesses are finding it to be the preferred way to conduct business.

If you are thinking about making the switch to Google, or have already made the switch but want to make sure you are using it correctly, then this guide will walk you through it. It will show you all the basic features to make sure you can get up and running as quickly as possible. It covers Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Google Forms.

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About the author

Scott La Counte is a librarian and writer. His first book, Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (Da Capo 2008) was the editor’s choice for the Chicago Tribune and a Discovery title for the Los Angeles Times; in 2011, he published the YA book The N00b Warriors, which became a #1 Amazon bestseller; his most recent book is #OrganicJesus: Finding Your Way to an Unprocessed, GMO-Free Christianity (Kregel 2016). 

He has written dozens of best-selling how-to guides on tech products.