4 Updates to Google Forms You’re Going to Love

Last month, Google announced a list of new features for Google Forms. Boasting templates that come pre-populated with suggested questions based on your use case and the ability to see who has completed your form and who hasn’t, these new features not only make it easier to create forms, but also provide insight into how your forms are completed.

1) Start From Scratch No Longer
2) Go Shopping For Add-Ons for Forms
3) Track Survey Progress and Analyze the Results
4) Receive Notifications and Status Updates

How to Insert Special Characters in Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings

In these apps, there’s a trackpad you can use to draw the symbol. Sometimes all we can remember is what a symbol looks like, the names for symbols aren’t always the most memorable, like the symbol ampersand.

Become a Google Slides Artist With These 7 Tricks

If there’s one conclusion you’ll reach after reading this article, it’s that Google Slides has some tricks up its sleeve. Jenny Lee is a graphic designer at BetterCloud and the artist behind the 2016 State of Cloud IT presentation. She shared her top tricks in Google Slides that she used while building the 2016 State of Cloud IT presentation. More than 35,000 people have viewed the presentation in SlideShare, which has proven to be a successful method to share a comprehensive slide presentation. From keyboard shortcuts, to masking images, Google Slides has an impressive set of tools for all end users to learn to become a Google Slides artist.

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You Can Finally Set Expiration Dates for Access to Google Drive Files

Businesses today don’t operate in isolation; employees work not only with one another, but with third-party vendors, clients, customers, and other businesses as well—and often on a temporary basis. To keep your organization’s information safe in these situations, Google is introducing the ability to set an “expiration date” for specific user access to files in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. 

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Where to Locate and Download Google Form Add-ons

It’s easy to find Chrome extensions, but what about Google Form Add-ons? Here’s a quick video to help you locate Google Form Add-ons and begin downloading them.

Create a new Google Form, or go to a Google Form you’ve already created.
Once you’re in Google Forms, click the More menu in the top right corner. Select Add-ons.
A new window will appear where the Add-ons are listed. You can hover over each add-on to get a preview of what they do. To download an add-on, just click the “+ FREE” icon.

How to do text-to-columns in Google Spreadsheets

Pasting in Google Sheets can become especially difficult when you want to paste a list or text that you want to separate into different cells. The former solution to separating text was with a script, but Google announced this week that you can now easily convert text to columns in Sheets with new paste formatting options.