Naked as We Came
I am hearing the song “Naked as We Came” by Iron and Wine. I never really thought about the lyrics until now.
My task this week was to review Google’s word processing application. I thought that it was a fine, rudimentary word processor. Here is my (quick) evaluation:
- Tables default to middle vertical alignment. It should be top. It would take additional training to help students understand where to look to fix this.
- Image placement is rudimentary. You can set alignment, but there is no behind-the-text alignment or free positioning of the image (at least not obviously).
- There are two views: “Normal (plain) view” and “Fixed-width page view”. The default is Normal… I prefer the Fixed-width.
- Hanging indentation missing.
- Copy and paste of image from one document to the Google document does not work. You have to go through the file menu to insert an image.
- It has spell check with any easy-to-select other languages (much easier than Microsoft Word)!
- It has word count. Very useful.
- It does do page numbers, but you cannot preview them as part of your in-work document. They are part of the print settings.
- You can add a header and a footer. Yay! But, you don’t have control over them from page-to-page. So, once you have set up a header and footer, you are stuck with it.
- I do like the idea that it automagically saves a version history for you.
