Awesome!!! Another Simple How To Use Standard Stuff Tutorial!

Summit (the company I work for) has employees all over the Western Slope of Colorado, and also a couple in Wyoming. Our Wyoming crew consists of a couple guys, with an incredibly nice (and talkative) southern man as the foreman. Last week, this foreman told me that the program he uses to fax me his time sheets had expired.
Now, all the other foremen come in to the office at least once a week, so they can just hand me their time sheets and I can give them new ones just as easily. Because this gentleman is in Wyoming (at least 8 hours from here) he does not come in to the office, and cannot physically turn in his time sheets, or pick up new time sheets here.
To remedy this he created his own time sheets and cover letters on his computer with a Microsoft Office trial that came with his computer. This trial has just expired, and he does not want to pay for the full version (and who can blame him).
So I suggested he try Google Documents. I love it, and it’s free! In fact I use this instead of Microsoft Office Myself.
He, of course, had no idea what Google Docs was, so I wrote him this tutorial. Enjoy!

How to use Google Docs Instead of the Microsoft Office Suite:

Step 1: Go to Google. Yup, believe it or not, the service called “Google Documents” is on Google.

Step 2: If you do not have a Google account, you have to make one (but that isn’t a bad thing because Google has all sorts of cool features.

Step 3: Log in to Google. Hope I haven’t lost you here….
Step 4: On the top right you will see a link that says “My Account”. Click it.

Step 5: Hey look! There are all the services you use. But wait, Google Documents isn’t one of them. Darn! Well, I guess we will remedy that. Beneath the label “Try something new” there is a link that says “more >>”, click it. Now you will see a list. On the right hand side, under the heading “Communicate, show and share” is a link that says “Docs” or “Documents”. Select it.

Step 6: Use Google documents to create spreadsheets, “word” documents and forms! You can also share documents from this page, so you don’t have to fax me everything, if you don’t want to.