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Now, Docs! Now, Sheets! Now, Slides and Add-ons! Simplify your holidays with Google Docs
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Docs editors don’t just make things easier at work—they’re handy for helping you get stuff done at home too, especially around the holidays. We’ve rounded up five ideas to help you focus on the cheer—we’ll take care of the rest.
1. Sending holiday cards? Refresh your address book first.
Use
Forms
to make it easy for friends and family to send you their most recent mailing addresses. Just create a quick form and email it out or post the link on social media. Everyone’s addresses will be neatly added to a private spreadsheet.
2. Now that you’ve got your addresses up to date—print out mailing labels.
Use the handy
Avery Label Merge add-on
to pull your holiday card addresses from Sheets into an Avery label template in Docs. Pop your labels into the printer, hit print and start sticking!
3. Send a digital, collaborative holiday letter with Docs.
If you’d rather send holiday letters instead of cards,
Docs
can let everyone in the family contribute, no matter where they are in the country or the world. Just create a doc, give everyone edit access and write your card together (and leave your thoughts and opinions with s
uggested edits & comments
). When it’s ready to go, you can
publish it
and share a link, or go old school and print and mail it out.
4. Give your documents and presentations a holiday touch with royalty-free images.
Choose from a bunch of free holiday-themed
images
in Docs and Slides to make your holiday projects a little more festive. Just click Insert > Image > Search > Stock images to browse.
5. Create visual wishlists to share.
Have a bit of fun with your family's holiday wish lists by making
Slides
for Santa. Share these visual wish lists with anyone who’s looking to pick up something for your family.
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