10.3. Editing Documents

When editing documents, you can do the following:

  • editing text, formatting characters, formatting paragraphs

  • editing spreadsheets, formatting cells, editing formulas

  • downloading or printing the selected document or sending it in an E-Mail

How to edit a document:

  1. Launch the Drive app.

  2. Open a folder containing documents, in the folder tree.

    Note: Open a folder for which you have the permission to create objects.

  3. Click on a document in the display area. In the pop-up, click on Edit. The document will be opened for editing.

  4. To edit the document, use the common techniques from the familiar Office applications.

    To format characters or paragraphs or to edit cells use the tools in the document bar.

    Note: All changes are immediately saved.

  5. To download or print the selected document or to send it in an E-Mail, use the icons to the left side of the tool bar.

  6. To search and replace text elements, click the Toggle search icon on the left side of the tool bar. Control elements for searching and replacing will be shown.

  7. To finish editing and to close the document, click the Close document icon in the document bar on the right side.

Note: When having completed the editing, a new document version will be created.