Surely you are not strangers to the cloud storage service Google Drive and often use it to store documents and share them with friends. However, many use the following tips you may not know, we help you get better Google Drive.
1 / Enable offline mode Drive
Google Drive can work offline without a network, but you have to manually activate it. Click the gear icon, select on Settings. In the General tab, check the "Sync ... offline". Google Drive will automatically save the document on your computer. You can not view the video or photo to open when you work in offline mode.However, you can view, edit and create files on Google Drive when you have no network connection.
2 / Search inside PDF files and scanned text images
You do not need a complex software, use Google Drive. You try to upload a PDF or image files from scanned documents, and then right-click it, select Open with and choose to Google Docs. Google Docs will transfer the entire contents of your text. Although this function does not work perfectly, but it's really quite useful for office people.
3 / Find your files easier
It was not ashamed to be the firm search function leading. Even its Drive service, Google also integrated into a search is quite useful. You will get more advanced search features if you click on the down arrow next to the search bar. In Shared with frame, fill mail someone to find the materials shared by someone. Type in the search box "before: yyyy-mm-dd" or "after: yyyy-mm-dd" to search for files before or after certain milestones. Note: yyyy is the 4-digit year, mm is the month dd is the 2-digit and 2-digit day. Enter "title: title" to search documents by title rather than the details in writing.
4 / Scan Images
If you have installed Google Drive app on Android, you can use your phone as a portable scanner, this feature has not been developed for iOS. From the app's main screen, click the plus icon, then select Scanfrom the menu that pops up. You can rotate or crop the image manually, or let it automatically adjusted, it can create multi-page document, and your scan will be uploaded to Google Drive in PDF format immediately.
5 / Back to the edited version of the file
Drive keeps multiple old versions of files, in case you want to revert to that version. With a Drive files, open them and on the File menu, then select See revision history; or with some other type of files, right-click them and select Manage versions. A pop-up menu, each version will allow you to download, delete, and can store it permanently than normal is 30 days.
6 / Write text with your voice
In many cases, you can not beat the machine, this feature supports you a lot, and even faster than typing.Let's create a new document, on the Tools menu, select Voice typing, then click on the microphone and speak.
7 / Search files with Google Now
With Android devices, you can call up Google Now and search files in Google Drive. Just run the search application Google Voice and ordered them to search.
8 / View largest files in your Drive
Your Drive out of space and you want to search for large files to remove them to free up memory. Please click on this , the largest files first will appear and you can click on the Quota used to see the smallest file in Drive.
9 / Add links related to text
Typically, you add the path to using manually. However, Google Drive will help you to add relevant links to your documents quickly. In the document, choose the Insert menu, select Links, and then type a search term to find documents in your Drive or insert the relevant link with the search term.
10 / Synchronize from a PC
Install Google Drive for Mac or Windows in here and you can access your files on your PC Drive by or you can upload files up easily. It also lets you use Google Drive offline and all your edits will be synchronized when you have an Internet connection.
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