Doc Tools for Google Docs

Use these quick Doc Tools to perform daily text operations in one click: change case and font size, highlight and sort text, turn words into numbers and back.

• Video: One-click tools for Google Docs
• How to work with Doc Tools
  • Start the add-on
  • Change font size
  • Highlight text
  • Sort your data
    • How to alphabetize lists
    • How to sort paragraphs
    • How to organize tables
  • Spell numbers
  • Change case
• Related pages

How to work with Doc Tools

Start the add-on

Select the text you'd like to change and go to Add-ons > Doc Tools > Start to open the sidebar with the tools:

The add-on will appear to the right of your document. Decide what you need to do, and click the corresponding button to apply changes:

Change font size

The first two icons will help you make the font of the selection bigger or smaller:

• To make text bigger, select it and click on the Increase font size icon.
• To make text smaller, select it and run the Decrease font size tool.

Highlight text

The highlighter is a great tool to quickly mark the most important blocks of text. Select the information you want to accentuate and click on the Highlight text tool on the sidebar:

Tip. The little arrow next to the icon will let you choose from 5 colors. The tool will always remember the latest color you choose:

The highlighter can also remove any of the selected colors, or clear them altogether. Select the paragraphs where you want to remove all highlighting and click on the Eraser icon.

Tip. To remove a particular color, click on the little arrow and pick the needed color in the list:

Sort your data

How to alphabetize lists

To organize your bibliography list alphabetically, select the items and click on the Sort A to Z or Sort Z to A icon to arrange them in ascending or descending order respectively:

How to sort paragraphs

To sort the paragraphs, please select them separately, i.e. without headings or list items.

How to organize tables

You can organize records in your table by any columns.

Place your mouse cursor at the beginning of any cell in a table and click one of the Sort icons. You will see a small dialogue box that prompts you to pick column(s) with the key records:

• Select the column(s) to sort on. E.g. you can sort the reference list by author's name, and then by article titles.
• Tick off My table has header row to leave the top row intact.

Once you specify how you want to arrange your text, click Sort.

Spell numbers

Number-to-word converter will help you replace integers with words and vice-versa in one click.

Simply select the number you need to spell and click on the 10 to Ten icon. You can turn words to numbers with the help of Ten to 10 tool:

Change case

The add-on offers five common ways to change the case of the selection.

Place the cursor on the word, or select the block of text you want to change, and click on the case you prefer on the sidebar:

• Change all selected text to uppercase by clicking the UPPERCASE icon.
• Apply lowercase to the selection using the lowercase icon.
• Click the Capitalize icon to start all words with a capital and make all other letters small.
• Apply Sentence case. to start every selected sentence with a capital letter.
  Note. Only the first letter in a sentence will change, all your acronyms and names that start with a capital will remain intact.
• Click tOGGLE cASE to invert case in the selection.

Related pages

• Styles for Google Docs
• Explore your files in Google Docs