Google Workspace Essentials-Google Workspace Essentials

Google Workspace Essentials - Course Outline

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This course outline covers foundational skills for using Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), focusing on everyday tasks in Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail.<br /><br />Participants begin with Google Workspace Fundamentals, learning how to sign in, open apps, and manage Drive content. Topics include creating, copying, renaming, organizing files and folders, opening and previewing items, searching and filtering to find files, switching views, sorting results, showing file locations, moving items, deleting and restoring files, printing documents, and using built-in help and command search.<br /><br />The next section, Editing, builds core document-editing skills: selecting text in different ways, editing content, cutting/copying/pasting, undoing and redoing actions, checking spelling and grammar (including ignoring suggestions and adding words to the dictionary), finding and replacing text, collaborating with comments (adding, replying, resolving), and inserting images and links.<br /><br />Formatting and Google Docs skills include font and text styling (bold/italic/underline, colors, font type and size), paragraph alignment, bulleted and numbered lists (style and levels), adjusting line and paragraph spacing, indenting (including special indents), changing page margins, orientation, and size, adding/removing headers and footers and page numbers, creating and editing tables (rows/columns), and applying, updating, resetting, and managing paragraph styles.<br /><br />Google Sheets modules teach selecting cells/ranges, entering and editing data, clearing contents, inserting/moving/deleting cells and rows/columns, adjusting row height and column width, freezing and hiding rows/columns, formula basics, AutoFill for copying and series, using SUM and AVERAGE functions, formatting numbers and dates (including custom formats), and managing worksheets (insert, rename, delete).<br /><br />Google Slides topics include creating and organizing slides (layouts, placeholders, deleting, moving, skipping), adding speaker notes, applying and updating themes, formatting images (crop/mask), inserting and formatting shapes, arranging objects (rotate, flip, order, group, align), adding transitions and animations, and presenting/navigating slideshows.<br /><br />Finally, Gmail coverage includes navigating the inbox interface, reading and managing messages, composing, replying and forwarding, adding attachments from device or Drive, using labels, starring and marking important emails, and archiving, deleting, restoring, and emptying trash.

Keywords

Google Workspace fundamentals

Google Drive file management

Google Docs editing and formatting

Google Sheets formulas and functions

Google Slides presentations

Gmail inbox management

Collaboration with comments

Search and organize files

Tables and paragraph styles

Email labels and attachments