Explore your files in Google Docs

Start the add-on

To begin with, open the add-on from Extensions > Search & Navigate > Start:

You will see the add-on sidebar with 6 tabs for you to navigate the document.

Browse the document by headings

Open the first tab, and the entire structure of your document will be shown in a tree view. Expand or collapse any heading to see all levels of content you have:

1. Point your mouse to any heading to see its level or click on it to jump to the corresponding chapter of the document.
2. To see only headings of the first level (H1) click on the Collapse button. Click again to expand the list back.
3. To refresh the list, press the Refresh button at the bottom of the sidebar.

Work with bookmarks

The Bookmarks tab contains a full list of bookmarks in the order they appear in the document. By clicking on the bookmark in the list, you will jump to the referred place in the document.

All bookmarks have the same name by default, each one displays the referred text so you could recognize where it leads:

1. The button with three dots will give you access to 3 ways to manage the bookmarks:
   • Choose Rename to change the name of your bookmark. Enter a new name in the editable field and confirm changes by pressing Enter on your keyboard:
     
   • Choose the Show link option to get a link to the bookmarked place in the document:
     
     Tip. Press Esc to close the link view.
   • Remove a bookmark by choosing the Delete option.
2. To create a new bookmark, select the desired paragraph in the document and click on the Add button at the bottom of the sidebar.
3. The Refresh button at the bottom of the sidebar will update the list of bookmarks.

Handle links from the Google document

Under the Links tab you'll find a list of all hyperlinks your Google document contains. Click on any link to jump to it in the text.

1. The three-dots button will let you:
   • Open the URL of the link in the new browser tab.
   • Edit the link or copy it for other purposes:
     
     Tip. Press Enter on your keyboard to confirm the edits or Esc if you change your mind.
2. The Refresh button will scan your document & update the list of all links.

Tip. To remove the link, click on it in the add-on to jump to it in the document and use the standard Remove the link option:

Manage images or tables

All the images and tables you have in the document are listed with their titles (the text above them) on their respective tabs.

Select an image or table in the list and you'll jump right to it in the document:

Find text

The Search field at the very top comes in handy when you need to look for a specific text, bookmark, link, picture, or table quickly.

Once you enter a word there, the add-on starts looking for matches across all tabs, i.e. in all types of data, simultaneously:

You can see the number of matches under each tab icon.

Switch between the tabs to see the results in context:

• The first tab has the headings with the searched text highlighted in yellow. It will also let you see a list of found items within each section.
• The tabs with bookmarks, images, and tables will show only those titles that contain the keywords.
• The tab with links will show all URLs with the desired text.
• To see all occurrences of the entered word in the document text, go to the last tab. You can navigate to any found sentence in the document by clicking on the result.

Set additional options

There are three additional options that let you adjust the add-on work a bit:

1. Check off the first one to automatically synchronize and update the list of headings, bookmarks, links, images, and tables from your document.
2. Select the second option to take the case into account when entering the text you are looking for in the document.
3. Tick off the last checkbox to consider the text from under the images (rather than above) as the titles that will appear in the list.