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  via GIPHY I was recently asked how can someone update their Chrome browser. These are instructions for updating your Chrome browser on a desktop or laptop. PC and Mac instructions are the same! I'll post how to update a Chromebook in a separate post. How do I update my Google Chrome browser? I was recently asked how can someone update their Chrome browser. These are instructions for updating your Chrome browser on a desktop or laptop. PC and Mac instructions are the same! I'll post how to update a Chromebook in a separate post. Date: November 5, 2022 Author: Travis True Source: Tango 1. Open your Chrome browser and click the 3 dots next to your profile picture. 2. Click on Settings. 3. On the left side of the settings screen, click About Chrome at the bottom 4. Chrome will automatically check if an update is available. If one is available the update will automtically download. You will see the progress here. When the download is complete, you will see a...

How do I change margins in a Google Doc? via GIPHY I was asked recently how can someone change the margin settings in a Google Doc. This video shows you how to access the Page Settings of a Doc. You will find margin settings, page orientation, page size, and page color in the Page Settings section. How do I change margins for a Google Doc? I was asked recently how can someone change the margin settings in a Google Doc. This video shows you how to access the Page Settings of a Doc. You will find margin settings, page orientation, page size, and page color in the Page Settings section. Date: November 5, 2022 Author: Travis True Source: Tango 1. Open a Google Doc Tip: You can type docs.new into your Chrome browser and a new Google Doc will be created. 2. Click on File 3. Click on Page setup 4. Margin settings are found on the right side of the window. 5. You can also change the page orientation of the doc 6. You can change Paper Size and Page Color of the do...

 Beginning in Google Chrome version 98, you will find a new icon to the right side of the Omni bar (address bar). This is the new share button for sharing websites. When you visit a website and click on this icon these are the share options you have access to: Copy the link to your website Send the website to another device. You must be signed in to the same account on both devices.(see video below for more) Generate a QR code and download it. Share to your favorite social media site. @travistrue Google Chrome share webpages. #TechTok #micropd #google #googlechrome #teachersoftiktok ♬ original sound - Travis True @travistrue Update to a previous video. This shows how to generate a QR code and how to share pages to other devices #micropd #TechTok #google ♬ original sound - Travis True

Wordle is taking over the world. It is a simple game. You get 6 chances to guess a 5-letter word. The unique part of the game is when you submit a word the game will highlight letters if they are in the word. Green means the letter is in the word and in the correct location and Yellow means the letter is in the word, but not in the correct location. Here is a screenshot of the instructions explaining this: When I played this for the first time, I couldn't help think that an activity like this could be easily created in Google Sheets using the Conditional Formatting rules. With Conditional Formatting cells, rows, or columns can be formatted to change text or background color if they meet certain conditions. For example, if they contain a certain word or a number.  I've created a video showing you how to set this activity up in Google Sheets. I'm also providing the spreadsheet from the video that you can use as a template. Click here for the Google Sheets Wordle Template

I was asked the other day.... (All I could think about the beginning of any Letterkenny episode when I typed that 😁) Anyway...... I was asked the other day how do you change the page layout in Google Docs. Here is the official answer from Google Support , but let me show you. 1. In Google Docs, click on File 2. Then click on Page Setup 3. Then you can change the page orientation to landscape. 4. You can apply this change to the whole document or choose which pages to only apply this change to. Page setup is where you can also change the margins and page color of the document. 5 STEPS 1. The first step is to open your  Google Docs and click File 2. Click Page setup. 3. Click Landscape You can choose to apply the change to the whole document or just selected pages. You can also change...

One of my goals this school year was to get back to blogging on a more consistent basis. I struggled with finding topics / information to share and blog about. Then I had an epiphany the other day. I'll share what teachers and principals in my district are asking for help with. This came about when my supervisor called me 3 times asking Google Doc formatting questions. I thought, this should be the stuff I'm sharing. That's the story behind the name change and hopefully you find the information helpful.

Have you created a Google Doc and needed to share it publicly (i.e. with parents) but didn't want to enter all the parent emails into the doc for them to view. Did you know you can publish a Doc, Slide presentation, or Spreadsheet to the web and then share the published link with people outside of your school for them to view? Students can also use the "Publish to the web" setting to create very basic websites using Google Docs. The nice thing about the "Publish to the web" setting is once the document is published, any changes to the document will automatically update to the published version without the need of resharing the published link. This can be used in Google Slides with a presentation or an interactive presentation. Also, data in a spreadsheet can be displayed, updated as needed, and published to the web for others to view without sharing the spreadsheet or document.