Google Docs有很多很棒的功能，但在某些情况下，有些人偶尔需要的东西是Google Docs(Google Docs doesn)默认没有的。
您可以启用许多Google Doc插件，这些插件将扩展Google Docs中可用功能的基础。以下是十个最好的。
高亮工具(Highlight Tool)
当您编辑文档或以任何其他方式进行协作时，突出显示文本的能力非常宝贵。
默认情况下，有一种方法可以在Google Docs中突出显示。(Google Docs)为此，您需要选择要突出显示的文本，选择功能区中的突出显示图标(highlight icon)，然后选择要使用的突出显示颜色。(highlight color)
这为您选择的文本创建了良好的突出显示效果。(highlight effect)但是，该过程需要几个步骤，并且选项有限。
突出显示工具(Highlight Tool) Google Doc插件使突出显示的过程更加实用。
安装该工具后，您需要完成几个设置步骤。为此，在Google Docs(Google Docs select) 中，从菜单中选择Add-ons ，选择(Add-ons)Highlight Tool，然后选择Settings。
启用在开始时自动扫描荧光笔集(Automatically scan for highlighter sets on start)。
选择角落中的 X 以关闭窗口。最后，通过从菜单中选择 Add-ons启动(Add-ons)荧光笔工具，选择(highlighter tool)Highlight Tool，然后选择Start。
这将启动突出显示工具(Highlight Tool)。
要开始突出显示，只需选择要以任何颜色突出显示的文本，然后在突出显示工具窗口中选择突出显示库。(Highlighter Library)
在第一个窗口中选择New Set 。给集合命名，并应用适当的颜色。如果你愿意，可以给颜色贴上标签。完成后，选择保存(Save)。
当您创建突出显示颜色集时，它们将出现在屏幕右侧的突出显示工具窗口中。(Highlight Tool window)
这个想法是您可以快速选择要突出显示的文本，并从您创建的任何突出显示颜色集中进行选择。这将突出显示该颜色的选定文本。
这个想法是，您可以创建大量您喜欢的高亮颜色。然后，您只需单击该窗口中您喜欢的任何颜色集，即可快速突出显示任何这些颜色的选定文本。
它加快了突出显示过程(highlight process)并使其更简单。
代码块(Code Blocks)
另一个很棒的 Google Doc 插件是Code Blocks。
如果您经常需要记录代码，最好的方法之一是使用可以处理和格式化特定代码语言的文字处理器。(word processor)
默认情况下，Google Docs(Google Docs doesn)并不能很好地处理代码格式。您需要通过选择不同的字体类型、添加背景颜色(background color)等来手动格式化代码块。但是，当您可以使用可以为您完成所有工作的附加组件时，为什么所有这些都可以工作？
安装Code Blocks插件后，您可以通过选择Add-ons菜单，选择Code Blocks，然后选择Start来访问它。
这将在右侧打开一个新窗口，让您选择要使用的代码语言(code language)和格式主题。
现在您需要做的就是将代码粘贴到文档中，突出显示整个代码块，然后在“代码块”窗口中选择“格式(Format)”按钮。
这会创建嵌入在您的Google 文档(Google doc)中的格式惊人的代码。
这个插件处理一系列令人印象深刻的语言，并包括一系列优秀的代码格式化主题。
可填写文件(Fillable Document)
Google Docs的一个非常常见的用途是创建其他人可以填写的表单模板。不幸的是，Google Docs 没有(Google Docs doesn)任何可以让您轻松创建可填写文档的好功能。
值得庆幸的是，有一个名为Fillable Document的(Fillable Document)Google Doc 插件(Google Doc add-on)可以让您做到这一点。
与其他附加组件一样，安装后，您需要从附加组件菜单项中选择它，然后选择(Add-ons menu item and select) 开始(Start)。
首次运行插件时，您需要选择“开始设置(Start setup)”才能开始。对于第 1 步(Step 1)，您需要从可填写的表单中选择要存储数据的电子表格。
您可以创建新电子表格或(spreadsheet or choose)从现有电子表格中进行选择。选择下一步(Next)继续。在第二步中，您将选择选择或创建目标文件夹(destination folder)。
在最后一步中，您需要创建一个电子邮件模板，以便将可填写的表单发送给收件人。此步骤是可选的。
完成设置后，您可以使用右侧的“可填写文档”窗口(Document window)为可填写文档创建所有字段。只需选择(Just)Field List旁边的 + 图标。您还可以选择创建新字段(Create New Field)。然后，您可以通过选择“插入字段(Insert Field)”图标将这些字段插入到文档中。.
这些字段显示在文档中，并带有前面带有 $ 符号的占位符。
您可以通过在“可填写文档”窗口中选择“(Document window)打开 Web 表单(Open Web Form)”来查看表单的 Web 版本。
创建完表单后，只需选择Publish Form。选择“共享(Sharing)”选项卡以提供电子邮件地址列表以将您的可填写表格发送到。
选择发布表单(Publish Form)以完成并发送电子邮件。
邮件合并(Mail Merge)
Mail Merge插件是一个功能强大的Google Doc(Google Doc)插件，可让您使用Google 表格电子表格中的值并将(Google Sheets spreadsheet and inserts)其插入到模板文档中。
为什么这很有用？如果您考虑业主需要向数百名客户发送发票的企业，则此插件将允许他们创建主发票(master invoice)“模板”文档(” document)，但使用电子表格中的数据行填写特定字段。
这会根据需要生成尽可能多的发票文档来处理原始电子表格中的所有数据。要使用此插件，您只需从插件(Add-ons)菜单中选择邮件合并，然后选择(Mail Merge)开始(Start)。
这将打开右侧的邮件合并窗口。(Mail Merge window)
使用此窗口选择包含要合并的数据的电子表格。然后，您可以选择要用于合并到文档模板(document template)的每个字段。
如果您想自动将一批文档发送给多个用户， 您还可以选择显示电子邮件设置(Show Email Settings)来自定义电子邮件标题模板。(email header template)
如果您确实想使用批量电子邮件功能(batch email feature)，请确保为插件设置SMTP设置，以便为您的电子邮件帐户(email account)使用正确的SMTP设置。
Pixabay上的免费图片(Pixabay Free Images)
另一个有用的 Google Doc 插件(Google Doc add-on)是Pixabay上的免费图片(Pixabay Free Images)。这是最容易使用的插件之一，因为它只是一个免费的图像搜索(image search)，您可以在自己的文档中使用图像。
要使用它，只需从菜单中选择Add-ons ，选择(Add-ons)Pixabay 免费图片(Pixabay Free Images)，然后选择搜索图片(Search Images)。
这将在右侧打开一个窗口，您可以使用该窗口搜索免费图像以在您的Google 文档(Google document)中使用。
只需选择免费图像即可将其放入文档中您当前拥有光标的任何位置。
文档变量(Doc Variables)
Mail Merge附加组件或 Fillable Document 附加组件(Document add-on)的替代方案是Doc Variables附加组件。
如果您想让多个人用自己的值填写文档，这个插件是完美的。该插件提供了一个协作表单，用户可以使用该表单将数据输入到您在文档中创建的变量中。
安装插件后，创建模板文档很容易。只需(Just select) 从菜单中选择Add-ons ，选择(Add-ons)Doc Variables，选择Insert Variable，然后选择要嵌入到文档中的变量类型。
选择变量类型后，只需为其命名并选择(name and select)它是单个字段还是覆盖(field or covers)多行。
选择确定(Select OK)，您将看到变量出现(variable show)在文档中，并且前面带有“$”符号。
您可以将文档发送给某人填写，他们所要做的就是从附加(Add-on)菜单中选择开始。(Start)
这将在右侧打开一个窗口，其中包含您为文档创建的所有变量的字段。
然后，您将表格发送给的人只需填写变量并按蓝色箭头即可完成。这将使用该人输入的所有信息自动填写文档。
这是创建易于填写的表单的好方法，或者只是一个模板文档，人们只需填写附加表单即可轻松填写。
文本清理器(Text Cleaner)
如果您编辑大量文档，Text Cleaner Google Doc插件可以自动化您的工作。
安装此插件后，您可以从菜单中进行快速编辑。只需(Just select) 从菜单中选择Add-ons ，选择(Add-ons)Text Cleaner，然后选择任何可用的快速编辑。
例如，您可以对整个文档执行任何操作：
- 删除换行符
- 删除分段符
- 修复硬换行符
- (Remove)从句子中删除多个空格
- 删除标签
- 修复智能引号
如果您想访问更多编辑工具，请选择配置(Configure)。将打开一个新窗口，您可以在其中自定义文本清理器(Text Cleaner)功能。
此屏幕不仅允许您自定义它将为您执行的所有编辑，而且如果您选择所需的所有内容并选择Save and clean now，它将立即对文档执行所有编辑。
与本文中列出的所有其他工具一样，此工具增强了您可以使用Google 文档(Google Docs)执行的操作。它使您的文档更容易做令人惊讶的事情。
10 Best Google Doc Add-ons To Create Amazing Documents
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There are a number of Google Doc add-ons you can enable that’ll extend the base of features available in Google Docs. The following are ten of the best ones.
Highlight Tool
When you’re editing a document or collaborating in any other way, the ability to highlight text is invaluable.
There is a way to highlight in Google Docs by default. To do so, you need to select the text you want to highlight, select the highlight icon in the ribbon, and choose the highlight color you want to use.
This creates a good highlight effect for the text you’ve selected. However the process takes a few steps and the options are limited.
The Highlight Tool Google Doc add-on makes the process of highlighting much more functional.
After you install the tool, you’ll need to complete a few setup steps. To do this, in Google Docs select Add-ons from the menu, select Highlight Tool, and select Settings.
Enable Automatically scan for highlighter sets on start.
Select the X in the corner to close the window. Finally, start the highlighter tool by selecting Add-ons from the menu, select Highlight Tool, and select Start.
This will launch the Highlight Tool.
To get started with highlighting, just select the text you want to highlight in any color, and select the Highlighter Library in the Highlight Tool window.
Select New Set in the first window. Give the set a name, and apply an appropriate color. Give the color a label if you like. When you’re done, select Save.
As you create highlight color sets, those will appear in the Highlight Tool window on the right side of the screen.
The idea is that you can quickly select the text you want to highlight, and select from any of the highlight color sets you’ve created. This will highlight the selected text that color.
The idea is that you can create a large set of as many highlight colors you like. Then you can quickly highlight selected text any of those colors by just clicking whatever color set you like in that window.
It speeds up the highlight process and makes it much simpler.
Code Blocks
Another great Google Doc add-on is Code Blocks.
If you often need to document code, one of the best ways to do that is by using a word processor that can handle and format specific code languages.
By default, Google Docs doesn’t really handle code formatting very well. You need to format code blocks manually by selecting different font types, adding background color, and more. But why do all that work when you can use an add-on that does it all for you?
Once you install the Code Blocks add-on, you can access it by selecting the Add-ons menu, selecting Code Blocks, and then selecting Start.
This will open a new window on the right that lets you choose the code language and the formatting theme you want to use.
Now all you need to do is paste your code into the document, highlight the entire block of code, and then selecting the Format button in the Code Blocks window.
This creates amazingly formatted code embedded inside your Google doc.
This addon handles an impressive array of language, and includes a nice range of excellent code formatting themes.
Fillable Document
A very common use of Google Docs is to create form templates that other people can fill out. Unfortunately, Google Docs doesn’t have any good features that allow you to easily create a fillable document.
Thankfully, there’s an Google Doc add-on called Fillable Document that lets you do just that.
Like other add-ons, once you install it you need to select it from the Add-ons menu item and select Start.
When you first run the addon, you’ll need to select Start setup to get started. For Step 1 you’ll need to select the spreadsheet where you want to store data from your fillable form.
You can create a new spreadsheet or choose from an existing one. Select Next to continue. In the second step, you’ll select to choose or create the destination folder.
In the last step you’ll need to create an email template for sending your fillable form to recipients. This step is optional.
Once you’re done with setup, you can use the Fillable Document window on the right to create all of the fields for your fillable document. Just select the + icon next to Field List. You can also select Create New Field. You can then insert those fields into the document by selecting the Insert Field icon. .
Those fields show up inside the document with placeholders that have the $ symbol in front of them.
You can see the web version of the form by selecting Open Web Form in the Fillable Document window.
When you’re done creating your form, just select Publish Form. Select the Sharing tab to provide a list of email addresses to send your fillable form to.
Select Publish Form to finish and send out the emails.
Mail Merge
The Mail Merge add-on is a powerful Google Doc add-on that lets you use values from a Google Sheets spreadsheet and inserts those into a template document.
Why is this useful? If you consider a business where the owner needs to send out invoices to hundreds of customers, this add-on would let them create a master invoice “template” document, but fill in specific fields using rows of data from a spreadsheet.
This generates as many invoice documents as needed to process all of the data from the original spreadsheet. To use this add-on, you just select Mail Merge from the Add-ons menu, and select Start.
This opens the Mail Merge window on the right.
Use this window to select the spreadsheet that contains the data you want to merge. You can then select each field that you want to use to merge to the document template.
You can also select Show Email Settings to customize the email header template if you want to automate sending the batch of documents to multiple users.
If you do want to use the batch email feature, make sure to set up the SMTP settings for the addon to use the correct SMTP settings for your email account.
Pixabay Free Images
Another useful Google Doc add-on is Pixabay Free Images. This is one of the easiest add-ons to use, since it’s simply a free image search for images you can use in your own document.
To use it, just select Add-ons from the menu, select Pixabay Free Images, and select Search Images.
This will open a window on the right that you can use to search for free images to use in your Google document.
Just select the free image to place it into your document wherever you currently have the cursor.
Doc Variables
An alternative to the Mail Merge add-on or the Fillable Document add-on is the Doc Variables add-on.
This add-on is perfect if you want to have multiple people fill out a document with their own values. The add-on provides a collaborative form users can use to enter data into the variables you’ve created in the document.
Once you’ve installed the add-on, creating a templated document is easy. Just select Add-ons from the menu, select Doc Variables, select Insert Variable, and choose the type of variable you want to embed into the document.
Once you select the variable type, just give it a name and select whether it’s a single field or covers multiple lines.
Select OK and you’ll see the variable show up in the document with the “$” symbol in front of it.
You can send the document to someone to fill out, and all they have to do is select Start from the Add-on menu.
This opens a window to the right with fields for all of the variables you’ve created for the document.
The person you sent the form to then just needs to fill out the variables and press the blue arrow to finish. This will automatically fill out the document with all of the information the person entered.
This is a great way to create an easy-to-fill-out form, or just a templated document people can easily fill out just by filling out the add-on form.
Text Cleaner
If you edit a lot of documents, the Text Cleaner Google Doc add-on can automate your work.
Installing this add-on gives you access to quick edits from the menu. Just select Add-ons from the menu, select Text Cleaner, and select any of the available quick edits.
For example, you can perform any actions on the entire document:
- Remove line breaks
- Remove paragraph breaks
- Fix hard line breaks
- Remove multiple spaces from sentences
- Remove tabs
- Fix smart quotes
If you want access to more editing tools, then select Configure. A new window will open where you can customize Text Cleaner features.
This screen not only lets you customize all of the edits it’ll do for you, but if you select everything you want and select Save and clean now, it’ll perform all edits at once on the document.
This tool, like all of the others listed in this article, enhances what you can do with Google Docs. It makes it much easier to do surprising things with your documents.
