Google Docs is getting an absolutely lovely feature that could reduce a lot of work when it comes to properly formatting your document: the ability to select multiple sections of text at once. If you have two sentences separated by a heading or want to apply the same effect to three different words throughout a paragraph, you can now do so by simply selecting the text at once and applying your changes.
Selecting multiple sections of text is extremely simple: select the first piece of text as you normally would, and then press the Command (⌘) or Control key, depending on whether you’re using a Mac or Windows machine. Press and hold down and select the other text snippets you want. Once you’ve selected everything, you can drop and change the format bits you want using the toolbar.
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It’s small, but if you have a lot of text to format, using this feature will be easier than, for example, using the formatting tool, which allows you to highlight a snippet of text and copy the format. to another. Although this tool does not require you to configure each setting on its own, it may still require a lot more clicks depending on how many pieces of text you are trying to change.
The feature can also be used for things other than formatting: say you want to cut a few paragraphs and move them, or add a comment that is relevant to several sentences. Multiple selection makes it easy.
There are some situations where using the feature will not be the best option. For example, if you’re trying to change all the headers in your document, it’s probably best to just change the style, instead of trying to select all the headers manually. To do this, you can format a header the way you want, then go up to the style section, select the header level, and click “Update.” [style] to match.”
With just one click, I can make all Title 1-formatted text look like junk.
While multiple selection may not be the perfect tool for all situations, it’s certainly great that Google has added it as an option, especially since there are some desktop application word processors that don’t look like it. have this feature (if you know how to extract). this turned off on the Apple pages, let me know). In an ad, Google says the feature will be rolled out to everyone’s accounts over the next 15 days, so if you don’t have one yet, you shouldn’t wait too long.