Twice in the last month I had to become reacquainted with Microsoft Office because a company I was working with required a genuine Office file. Both experiences made me appreciate Google Drive's simple, straightforward apps all over again.
Yes, there are tasks Google Drive's word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program can't handle well or at all, but for 99.9 percent of the files I work on, Google Drive fits the bill nicely. Here are five ways to use Google Drive to shave minutes off your workday.
Keyboard shortcut opens a list of keyboard shortcuts After a couple of decades of computer use my memory capacity for keyboard shortcuts may have reached its limit. Still, there's no better way to work faster than to eschew the mouse in favor of keystroke combinations for common operations.
Google Drive provides a slew of specialty keyboard shortcuts, most of which CNET"s Ed Rhee described in a post from last April.
For us memory-challenged types, the last shortcut on the list is the most important one: type a question mark (or Shift + /) to open a window listing all Google Drive keystroke combinations. (The shortcut list can also be opened by clicking the "Keyboard shortcuts" option on the Settings (gear icon) drop-down menu in the top-right corner of the main window.)
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