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How to Get a PowerPoint From Google Docs to a Flash Drive

Google Docs application is a free online service that allows users to import, save, create, modify and export documents. Since all the documents are saved onto the Google server, you can access any...

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How to Sync Google With an iMac

A Google account allows you to do much more than check your email: Users with Google accounts can keep track of contacts, add events to an online calendar and do much, much more. The only elements of...

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How to Change a Personal YouTube Account to a Business

YouTube uses a Google Account as its login gatekeeper, and it's possible to have multiple Google accounts. Google does not require a separate login if you want to use YouTube to promote a brand or a...

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How to Make Google Voice Ring Longer

Google Voice is a phone number forwarding system that allows calls to one phone number to ring multiple devices. Google has set the Voice ring time to be 25 seconds, after which time the call will be...

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How to Combine Multiple Google Voice Accounts

Google Voice is the call forwarding service created by Google which allows phone calls and text messages sent to one phone number to be forwarded to multiple phones. To combine Google Voice accounts...

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How to Animate Words & Do Slide Delays in a Google Docs Slideshow

The Web-based Google Docs productivity suite includes a minimalist slide show application called Google Docs Presentation. While the software lacks some of the more advanced features available from...

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How to Install Google Analytics Using Dreamweaver

Google Analytics is a free service that measures traffic on your websites, letting you view reports on how long people stay on your site and what pages they visit. After you activate Google Analytics...

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How to Stop Google From Hijacking My Homepage

The first page that appears when you access the Internet is called your homepage. On a Windows computer, the default homepage is the Microsoft Internet Explorer website. Although many cases of homepage...

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XLSX Mime Types

The Web has changed the way we conduct business. Instead of hard copies, most files are now transferred over the Internet or as email attachments. But remember to consider compatibility when you...

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Can Google Recognize Photos?

Google builds a vast index of Internet content that allows users to quickly search trillions of Web pages. Most of the content that Google amasses is text-based material. In 2011, however, Google added...

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How to List a Restaurant on Google

Google provides a free local business listing service, known as Google Places for Business. People searching Google for nearby restaurants will see your restaurant’s listing, whether they’re using the...

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Rules for Multiple Google Accounts

Though Google does not limit the number of accounts you can own, practically you are limited by how many you can easily manage. In some instances, Google limits the number of associations you can make...

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How to Make Google Translate Beatbox

Google Translate allows you to enter text in one language and have it translated into another language. Once you've received the translation, you can have the translation read aloud. You can enter the...

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Are Google Analytic Goals Retroactive?

Google Analytics is considered one of the best and most efficient free traffic analysis software solutions available. As it is developed to handle just about any sized website and has a fair number of...

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How to Get into a Google Zeitgeist Conference

Google Zeitgeist is the annual conference that the major search engine and technology firm hosts for its customers and advertisers. Think of it as the Academy Awards of technology, global education and...

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Why Does Google Keep Signing Me Out?

Browser cookies may raise privacy concerns, but they also help keep you logged into Google and other websites. If Gmail, Google Drive or other Google sites log you out after you leave them, ensure that...

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Can I Load to Google's FTP Site?

Google users have a couple of FTP options. While Google doesn't offer plain FTP Web hosting, you can FTP files to Google Docs and Google Merchant Center accounts. Google Merchant Center is a platform...

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What Is Minimum User Google Apps?

The Google Apps and Google Apps for Business cloud-based computing services provide online communication, messaging and collaborative working tools to individual users, small businesses and large...

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How to Create a Google Custom Search Engine for Use on Your Own Domain

Google's custom search enables you to create your own mini search engine for your website. You control what sites appear when someone uses the search; you can add your entire site or just parts of your...

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How to Erase Google Search Trail

Whenever you use Google's search engine, you're leaving a trail the Internet giant can use to figure out your interests, buying habits and even embarrassing secrets. When you're signed in to a Google...

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Is Google Maps Available for Kindle Fire?

The Kindle Fire uses an operating system based on Google's Android OS and optimized for the large tablet screen. Google programs aren't available from the Amazon Appstore on your Kindle Fire, but you...

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How to Disable Google Notifications

If you are drowning in a sea of Google notifications, disable the notifications in the originating application. Google+ notifications can be configured to send you an email or SMS every time someone...

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What Is a Google Forwarding Number?

Google Voice is a telecommunications service released by Google in 2009. Users of Google Voice are assigned a new phone number and access to a Web-based voicemail service, which is accessible via both...

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Why Can't I View Large PDF Files in Google Docs?

Your digital life could be humming along smoothly, until you try to view a large PDF file using Google Docs. While this free online storage service helps people store documents online, it also places...

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How to Remove eBay From a Search

EBay's company overview page claims "more than 94 million active users globally." Unfortunately, with so many people creating so much content, eBay results can dominate search engines when you're...

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How to Stop Using Google SSL

Several Google services use Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, to encrypt data you send and receive over the Internet. Google services such as Gmail and Encrypted Search use SSL to help ensure hackers or...

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How to Turn off the Network in Google AdWords

Google AdWords was launched in 2000, with the pay-per-click model introduced in 2002, and has become Google's primary source of revenue. Accounts can be set up quickly online, allowing your...

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How to Export Yahoo! Notepad to Google Documents

The Web-based note taking application Yahoo! Notepad does not provide a method for exporting your notes to a text format that could be easily imported into other applications, like Google Docs. But...

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How to Use Google Storage for Backup

Google gives everyone free user accounts and data storage space on the servers. Google Docs, an online document storage service, allows you to upload any type of file. Even if you are not low on hard...

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How to Get Listed in Google Maps

Google Places, a service of Google, Inc., lets you add a link to your business in Google Maps. While viewing a map of the area around your business, visitors will see a link to it, along with other...

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How to Type a Fraction on Google

Google is not only a search engine, it's also an online calculator. Since fractions can become tricky to calculate, it's often easier to insert them in Google and just press "Enter" to find an answer...

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How to Change a YouTube Google Account

YouTube accounts created before May 2009 can be linked to any Google account of your choosing. If you have one of these old YouTube accounts and you've already linked it to a Google account, you can...

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How to Find a Citation in Google Scholar

When writing papers for school or work, using Google Scholar can help you find academic articles related to your topic. In order to ensure that you properly cite your sources, you can use Google...

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How to Print a Google Calendar With Details

Use a Google calendar as a place to record homework deadlines, project management goals or social event details. The Google app supports custom views, text message reminders and keyboard shortcuts that...

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How to Keep Someone From Tracking My Google Searches

The most effective way to avoid people finding out what you searched for on Google is using a Web browser that offers private browsing. The private browsing feature allows you to hide your search...

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How Do I Disable Auto-Correct in Google Spreadsheets?

Google Sheets automatically formats the data you type into cells. For example, if you type "1/2" and press "Enter," Google picks the date format and changes the data in the cell. If you type "1:2,"...

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How to Copy From Google Documents to Word

Google Docs is a popular online word processing service that lets you create new documents, upload and edit existing documents from your computer, and easily share your files online. If you want to...

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How to Get Data from Google Trends

Google Trends provides a way to research the popularity of terms used by other people on Google's search engine. Though it doesn't provide raw numbers of searches performed, Trends shows relative...

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How to Change Your Verification Email for Google Accounts

Google Accounts offers a wide variety of tools such as Gmail, iGoogle, Google Checkout, Google AdWords, Google Alerts, Google Analytics, Google Docs, Google AdSense, Google Groups and Google Webmaster...

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How to Make Timesheets With Google Docs

Users of Google services may access Google Docs to create items such as spreadsheets, presentations, forms and timesheets. Look for the timesheet that best suits your needs within the Google Doc...

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How to Read Full Books From Google Books

In 2008, the Author's Guild and other organizations filed a lawsuit against Google books regarding their vast online book collection. Google resolved the lawsuit and looks forward to providing more...

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How to Filter a Google Spreadsheet

Google Docs are a set of productivity programs including a word processor, spreadsheet program and presentation program, that are available online for free. Google allows multiple people to work on a...

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How to Save a KMZ File in Google

Google Earth can save placemarks and locations as a KMZ file, which is a zipped KML file. You can distribute this KMZ file by email, save it to your computer or post it on a Web server. Users of Google...

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How to Copy a Picture off of Google Onto Your Pictures

Copying pictures from the Internet is as simple as a mouse click. For the uninitiated, the task may seem unfamiliar. However, saving your favorite pictures from Google and other websites is one of the...

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How to Turn Off a Google Theme

Google's classic homepage can be themed with a custom background image. The theme replaces Google homepage background with an image of your choice -- similar to a desktop wallpaper. If you've enabled a...

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How to Contact Google for Corrections

Contacting Google to make corrections to the Google Earth database is a simple process. The company provides a helpful "Contact Us" tool to send reports about conflicting or incorrect information that...

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How to Use Google Cache to Go Further Back

You can view snapshots of a website's past by viewing its cached results. A cache is simply a copy of a website that has been stored by Google. By viewing the cache, you can view the website even if it...

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How to Invite Users to Google Analytics Accounts

Google Analytics provides webmasters and publishers with detailed visitor statistics for each monitored website or blog. Sharing Google Analytics data for your website is useful if you want to sell the...

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What Is Google DNS?

Google DNS is an alternative domain name service that offers high speeds and enhanced security. Google hosts the DNS and it's available globally. A domain name system is a database that's used to...

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Positive Effects of Google

Google has grown to be much more than a search engine, with all-encompassing initiatives that include everything from driverless cars, to the Google Glass device, to game-changing programs such as...

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