If you’ve switched over from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, you’ve possibly observed there’s simply one issue: producing a brand-new document takes far a lot of steps. Right here’s just how to develop brand-new records with solitary click– or perhaps a shortcut trick.

Keep in mind: you can utilize these faster ways to develop Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, however we’ve not yet determined just how to make a shortcut for a brand-new Drawing. If you figure that out, please allow us know. Thanks to Ed, we even have the faster way for a new Drawing.

Produce a Windows Shortcut

Begin by clicking anywhere on the desktop computer, as well as choosing New -> > Shortcut from the context food selection.

Currently you’ll want to paste in the full URL for creating a brand-new file in Google Docs, Spreadsheets, or Presentations right into the Location box, and then give it an ideal name. If you’re utilizing basic Google Docs, you’ll be using one of the complying with URLs:

If you’re using Google Apps, you’ll intend to make use of one of these URLs, replacing YOURDOMAIN with the real name of your domain name– you’ll possibly discover that these URLs have HTTPS, which you can select to use, or not.

See to it that you’ve produced the shortcuts that you want, and called them appropriately, so we can include some great icons.

Appoint an Appropriate Icon as well as a Hotkey

To transform the shortcut, just right-click on it and also use Properties from the context food selection, after that flip over to the Web Document tab if you’re not already there. From right here, you can tailor the shortcut secret to something that you ‘d like, and designate a various icon.

If you desire some excellent symbols that match, you can download this set of Google Docs symbols from Softpedia, which will certainly make your resulting shortcuts appear like this:

It’s crucial to note that if you desire the faster way secrets to work for these faster ways, you’ll require to either have the shortcut on your desktop or in the Start Menu– the hotkeys just don’t function in other places.

Creating a Web Browser Shortcut

If you’re currently in your web browser and also have Google Docs open, you can simply use the drop-down menu to develop new shortcuts– but personally I find this fairly tiresome, especially given that I hardly ever have the Docs screen open already. This implies to create brand-new file I’ve got to authorize into Docs, and after that wait for that page to lots, and then click the drop-down menu, and after that wait for another page to load.

As opposed to all that, you can merely drag one of the following shortcuts up to your Bookmarks bar– if you’re making use of routine Google Docs, at the very least, as well as not Google Apps.

If you’re making use of Google Apps, you can produce a new book mark, making use of among the URLs from earlier.

If you are using Firefox, you can have gone into an alternate key phrase too, to produce new documents using the place bar, but Google Chrome customers don’t have that choice in the bookmarks system. What you’ll need to do rather is right-click on the place bar as well as go to Edit Search Engines.

From there, you can include a new “internet search engine”, but rather, just utilize the URL to develop a brand-new Google Document. In this manner you can merely get in the keyword phrase into the location bar, and it’ll develop a new document.

If you’re asking yourself why the last screenshot is various … yes, I began creating this post on Windows and afterwards switched over to my MacBook Air so I might enjoy the football video game in the various other space.