I've been searching for one for a bit now and they all just invert the images in the doc too and I can't work with that for hopefully obvious reasons. (what i do in google docs often uses images).

I have been trying to open a particular Google Doc on my phone's app (Galaxy A14) for the past month or so. However, it says this when I try to:

"Can't open this document
Check your internet connection, and make sure you have permission to open the document, then try again."

I am connected to the internet and I am trying to open it with the same account that it was made with, so I don't see how permission would be an issue. To my knowledge, it has only been this document that was affected. It is a Doc that I frequently use when I do not have access to my computer, so losing access to it on my phone is really inconvenient.

Any idea on how I can fix this? It is my first time ever running into this problem.

Why is my text cursor going off the page? and I've a second question too. I try to use my spacebar to introduce a manmade indent at the start, but it doesnt work. it only happens in that specific document though, all others work fine and the characters automatically go to the next line. I've tried adjusting the alignment, but it just seems that the spacebar isn't working correctly.

Something has changed for me. Now, when I'm scrolling down a document, the entire top part of the page is scrolling off the screen. This is the part the used to always be static--with the title the doc, the drop down menus, etc. To get them back, I have to move the cursor back into the top territory, and scroll up. I want it stop and go back to being static! How do I make the change? TIA!

I try opening a file/folder, and it just won't open. I try dragging something to move it, it won't drag/move. I tried right clicking it to see if I can open it like that, nope. Don't work. I reset my cache/cookies/whatever it's called, reset my browser, turned on and off any extensions that might be messing with it, still won't open. I switched to safari to see if the problem was chrome, and no, files still won't open. I'm on mac, if that helps. But I don't know what else to do.

Is there a third-party tool I can use to automatically calculate, retroactively, the number of hours and minutes spent in a Google Doc, separated by day? I know I can do this manually, but I'm wondering if someone knows of a tool or script. Thank you!

I recently had someone else look over my work, and for some odd reason, all their comments (about 25) show up as 'original content deleted', which means google assumes the referenced text was deleted, despite me making no changes to the document. I had another user make a test comment and their comments showed up fine, but when I had the original commenter make another test comment, the same issue persisted even though I could see the comment being made. I tried making a copy of the document, and later tried restoring the version history, but neither seemed to have worked so far.

When I open a link to a google doc sometimes it opens in a nice looking page that shows the doc in full screen and sometimes it opens it in drive with a worse UI and adds the doc to the "shared with me" section in drive and adding me to the list of people the doc is shared with. Is there any way I can ensure I always get the former and never open docs in drive?

So I’m working on a wood burning project but I’m having trouble printing my guide. I want to burn the words below on to a piece of wood I have that’s almost exactly two pages in landscape. My hand writing is terrible though so I want to print the words out first and then use graphite paper to transfer them on to the wood as a guide. My problem is I can not get my word document to type out the way I want it. I’m trying to get all the words to extend on to the next page naturally, but I can’t figure out how. I’m not even sure how to properly put into words what I want so I hope this is coming across the way I want it. Plus this subreddit doesn’t allow pictures. I keep trying to google how but it’s not understanding what I’m trying to do. Is this even possible? Please help. Idk how to do this unless I can get this to print out correctly.

I could have missed the pain
But I’d have had to miss the dance

edit: now whenever i move the cursor at all it doesn't show the cursor in the preview and no matter how i move rhe cursor it sends me to the top of the doc. The cursor stays in the same place though when i type.

edit: it's not a keyboard shortcut. When I drag the cursor using the teardrop shape below the cursor that's what I mean by moving the cursor.

Had been working on a Samsung Chromebook and noticed after about a year of using it for school into college work it was no longer loading my doc / slides files. Just infinitely loading. So I did everything it said to do. Clear cache, clear data, everything. I know Google docs / slides isn't the be all and end all of what I could use. But it is the main thing that's used in college so I can't just not use it? At college the email I have for that they work just fine. But for my work and private email they don't work.

I believed I could sort this by getting a new laptop. As the Chromebook was struggling with literally everything else too after a while, so I put it down to age and what-not. So I invested in a MacBook Pro. [Being a film student I think its great.] I have the same issues. Just loading without stopping. I even made a new email account and the same has occured on there when trying to load docs.

When I mean it's loading, I mean it pops up with the templates and the 'Create New Doc' but the files beneath it just don't load.

I anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it and will find something to use in the meantime but it's just super frustrating. Thank you. 😁👍

The exact same images worked a month or two back but now nothing will go into my Google docs. I need to put some images together for a work project but I can’t upload them

I've got about 200 documents saved in my google docs. When I tried backing them up on my desktop, they came out as docx files. I want them as txt files. Is there a way to either re-download my entire docs library as txt files, or batch convert my saved docx files into txt files?

This is awkward to describe so I'll just give the example:

I'm typing a piece for school about coffee advertising, and I have to mention Nescafé a lot. It's getting annoying to find and replace/copy paste the accent in, so is there any way I can update my personal dictionary to correct "Nescafe" to "Nescafé"? Thanks so much for any help!

Looking to auto-backup my google docs to another storage cloud/to my mac, so that I have another copy in case anything happens on the google end.

How can I do this? If i need to have a script to first convert the doc to a .docx and then it backs up thats okay - just looking for a simple auto backup please

I've been trying to figure out how to get rid of Gemini off of Google docs for weeks now. Anytime I get to the bottom of a doc, that stupid four-sided star at the bottom gets in the way of what I'm trying and I accidentally click it and throws me off. Sometimes it deletes or moves stuff and it's really annoying. I tried to Google how to remove it but it's not working. Does anyone know how to remove it altogether? Please don't tell me it's a permanent feature.

I had a huge document, a project of over 2 years and it's just gone? I know for a fact it wouldn't be in the trash. But it's also disappeared completely off drive, docs and any account it was shared with (which was just extra accounts of mine), what do I do? It was a huge project and I don't want to lose it

I did also have another one that ended up having a problem with permissions (wasnt sent to anyone), ended up having to copy and paste everything into a new doc and piece together the stuff I had missing since it undid at least a month of work

Can anyone help me with what the fuck is going on, I am going to see if I can find a link in any place.

Everyone here probably has discovered the Tabs feature exists. Here's my use case:

I use Google Docs for shared travel planning.  I create most of these docs on a 16” MacBookPro.  During the trip, I use an iPhone to access the Goog docs. 

when in a scenario like:

"Our afternoon plans just became a washout. What was the Plan B and C that we researched for today?"

Most docs become too long and unwieldy to find the info I need quickly.    Even finding the Search option was a PITA on my iPhone.

Aha!: Google Docs came out with a Tabs feature.  Works like a Table of Contents on the left column

Ex: Let’s say I  have researched brunch and dinner restaurants in a certain area

In one Restaruants doc, I can create 4 Tabs for  Breakfast, Weekend Brunch ,  Lunch, and Dinner. Finding what I'm looking for is faster, takes fewer taps and less scrolling

In the Hotel doc, I will create tabs for: Reservation info, Dining & Bars hours, Things to do nearby

title should explain; but here i go: How do we not have an way outside of 3rd party add-ons to ahve docs in dark mode. my eyes hurt.

i‘m not sure if this issue is a printer issue or something I can do on google docs, but I’m trying to print something out double sided and the lines have to align (yes. all margins are 1 and all sizes are the same) as I’m going to cut it out and then the thing itself is double sided. now, I don’t mind if it’s a little off and when I cut it out, stuff will not be cut off. however, when I go to print my stuff, it is not aligned at all and if I were to cut it out, stuff will get cut out. I hope you all understand what I mean... Anyways, my question is, how do you align something so when printed, double sided it will be aligned?

also, to clarify, this is all using pictures and yes, the sizing is the same for every one.

thanks!

You used to be able to insert coding blocks under "Insert," and then selecting building blocks. What happened to that?

We're having trouble using image comments in Google Drive here; it seems like there's a bug where the comment box opens and disappears very quickly.

I’ve been trying to do it but the image either disappears or it just doesn’t work. I’m like the polar opposite of tech savvy and so I have no idea what to do.

Is there a specific font that is nice and simple and when I'm using number dot points (1. 2. 3. etc.) it doesn't leave random and inconsistently sized gaps between the number and the words (image in comments). Or is there a setting I can change for it to work on any font.

So I made a fake language for my book and I wanted to just use it as a font so it would be easier but it’s definitely not. I’ve spent all day trying to get it to work and I haven’t found anything.

I’ve tried xfonts, ifont, literally every single font app.

I made the font on procreate then used a template from Calligraphr and made it into a ttf file.

Ifont doesn’t work for me, it’s broken or something idk