Mastering Google Drive and Docs

by Saqib Khan

Google Drive is an amazing cloud storage service that apart from storing, sharing and syncing files, offers an online office suite which allow its users to create Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Drawings and Forms. But that’s not all! Users can also connect various apps and extensions to Drive and expand its functionality to a greater extent.Drive’s sharing and collaborating feature are surely one of its strong points, and are very useful for businesses or even a personal user. Best of all – the collaboration happens in real time and it’s you who controls who can see, edit or comment on your document. You can also use Drive when in offline mode. You will learn about all these features and how to take advantage of them using this book.Apart from teaching you how to use Google Drive's sync program and its office features, this book also teaches you how to get the most out of Drive. For example; do you know that you can scan documents and photos with Drive? Do you know that you can add Drive shortcut to Send To menu? Do you know that you can backup your iOS contacts to Google Spreadsheet? This book teaches you many such tips and tricks that will help you to master Google Drive. If used well, these tips are surely going to improve your productivity. All the information presented in this book is in simple plain English – no complicated technical jargon at all. You’ll learn everything with step-by-step instructions and necessary The book has been updated with the all new "Add-ons" menu information, with some more tips.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 17, 2013

About the author

Saqib Khan is a technology enthusiast and founder of Technostarry, one of the most widely read how-to tech blogs on the web. Apart from that, he also contributes for the tech column on ValueWalk.

Saqib lives in India, the country which is popularly known as the land of festivals. A friendly person, focused and born thinker - that's Saqib.

Check out more information on his new eBook on Dropbox.

Reviews

[Ivonne Rovira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Google Classroom has become all that and a bag of chips in education these days, so I turned to this 170-page intro to get a taste of what Google Drive and its various programs are all about. Author Saqib Khan has written the perfect book for newbies to Google Drive. He thoroughly covers the cloud drive itself as well as the various programs — clones of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Paint plus a forms program that promises to be useful for online quizzes.

I’ll probably eventually need something a bit more detailed, but Khan’s book is good enough to tide me over for a long, long time. And, for those with Kindle Unlimited, the price will be right: free. For those without, it’s a very reasonable $2.99 for the Kindle edition.