Use Google Docs Add-ons First, though, you need to know your way around the Google Docs Add-ons store. Just open the Add-ons menu and click Get Add-ons to browse the hundreds of extras you can add to Google Docs. Find something you want to try? Click it to see more details—or just click the + Free button to install it in Google Docs. You’ll need to allow the add-on access to your Google account, and seconds later it’ll be added to your Docs. Your add-ons will…
Text Cleaner to remove formatting and clean up text Google Docs includes a Clear Formatting option, but it removes everything—links, bold and italics text, colors, and more. Text Cleaner gives you a more granular way to clean up text the way you want, along with extra tools to remove line breaks and spaces. Just select the text you want to clean up, then choose the Text Cleaner function you want from its add-on menu to remove links, line breaks, tabs, spaces, or all formatting—or…
There are plenty of other options out there (and we’ve heard from readers in the past as to what they enjoyed using), but these 40 are among the best. Over the years here, we’ve discussed plenty of apps that you can use to improve your overall productivity. There are certain ones that many of our contributors and editors (past and present) have adopted over the long-term — there are always the stalwarts that stick around. But there are also new apps…
Google Drive is a great alternative for individuals who don’t have a word processor or any form of an office suite. It allows them to make documents, powerpoint presentations, excel documents and more without the added memory being eaten up or having to load a software on your computer. For those who do have a word processing suite, Google Drive is a great way to have collaborative documents on your computer. For example, it is the office software that I make use…
In Windows 7 and Windows 8/10, there is a new folder under C:\Windows called WinSxS, which basically stores dll and component files. It also stores older versions of all dll and component files and can grow to be quite large. In addition to that, a lot of space is taken up by the backup folder, which gets really big after you install a Service Pack, like SP 1 for Windows 7. Here’s the size of my WinSxS folder on Windows 7:…