 Hey, are you using everything Google Docs has to offer? Not if you don't know these five Google Docs secrets. Google Docs is convenient, it's free, but that doesn't mean it's a watered-down office suite. Google Docs has a lot of secret and powerful features. Let them be secret no more. Here are our top five Google Docs secrets. At number five, dictate documents. Give your fingers a break. Make sure your mic is selected and turned on in your system settings. Then just go into the tools menu, click on voice typing, click on that little microphone there, and start talking. You can still edit with a keyboard and mouse while you dictate to get things just right. Coming in at number four, revert to older versions. Did your coworker, Kelly, accidentally delete a really important paragraph or data cell again? Well, you can access older versions of any doc sheet or slide and recover that info. Just open the file menu, click version history, and select C, version history. On the right side of the history preview screen, you can select which timestamp you wanna look at. You get lots of options. To revert the file to the version you're looking at, click restore this revision. And it also lets you see who made the changes so you can ask Kelly nicely not to delete your work anymore. Up to number three, stream presentations to a Chromecast. Slides are typically used for presentations, but if you wanna share with a large audience, you either have to share the presentation or get a larger screen and plug it into your PC or laptop. Maybe there's some projector thing, but there's another way. Stream your slides with Chromecast. Click on the slide show dropdown menu in the upper right corner of the menu bar and select the present on another screen option. As long as you have a Chromecast capable device on the same Wi-Fi network, you can stream your slides right to it. Sliding into number two, Google Drive Search. Google Drive is more than just online storage for your photos and documents. Google Drive actually scans through all those documents that you've uploaded or the ones that have been shared with you and you can search text inside of any of those documents. So if you need to find an old document and you're like, I can't remember the title, but I know a phrase or a piece of text inside, search for that and Google Drive will pull up the results. At number one, copy and paint formatting. Have you ever wondered what that little paint roller icon in the Google Doc sheets and slides is for? It helps you change formatting across a lot of text inside the same document. So to use it, select your text, click the paint roller icon and select the text you want to reformat. Google will automatically change the formatting to match. These are some pretty cool doc secrets, right? No reason to keep them secret though. Share them with your friends and coworkers. Hey, and if you want more great tech news and info, you can subscribe to this channel right here on YouTube. You can get our podcast at dailytechnewshow.com and if you like what you see, support the show, patreon.com slash dtns. I'll see you there.