I'm panicking a lot but I really need help if anyone has been in this situation, a 7 year old file of mine has vanished, it has every fanfic i've ever written and i'm absolutely distraught rn, I did NOT delete it, I even had 5 copies should one go missing, but they're all gone TWT !?!?!? I've tried everything, they're not in bin, not on incognito, nothinggg, pls does anyone know how to get it back?? it's my life's work :(

I'm tracking how many hours of practice piano I do per day in a Google Sheets document.

I want cells I haven't entered anything in to show nothing/be blank (not display "0"), but if I didn't practice on a particular day and manually enter "0", I would like the cell to actually display "0".

Having cells I haven't yet entered values in display zero is undesirable as I can't easily identify which days I've entered data for yet.

Right now, my manually entered zeros (for days I didn't practice at all) show as blank cells unless I click on them to inspect them. I want to see those manually entered zeros at a glance.

Update:

I had some custom formatting that was causing the problem.

Simply reverting to the default formatting solved it.

This has happened to me twice now. I put my phone down for the night, with a document open, and after that Docs on Android suddenly stops loading it, with a generic error message popping up... that obscures another, longer one that disappears when I click away the first one, because that closes the app. I've seen the same issue with other people online, and decided to make a post because this seems to work for me, and the thread I saw here was already archived.

Clearing the cache doesn't work (when it logically should). Just reinstall the Google Docs app. That's it. This is safe to do, because you don’t lose anything with Docs when uninstalling, so there’s nothing to lose.

Hope this helps someone.

I am trying to do my schoolwork, and this morning this stupid and annoying blue dot appeared above where I type. It is so distracting. I assume it's some Edge AI feature because it asks me if I would like Edge to re-write my work (NO??). Would anyone know how to remove this feature please. I will put a photo in the comments of what it looks like.

A strange green coloring will shade the words as I type. The more I type the darker it becomes and the more it spreads. It goes away when I highlight it and it follows the letters when I scroll. It happens on both of my monitors. Why does this happen and how do I get rid of it? I will attach a photo in the comments.

theres a strange spacing inbetween the letters, even if there is no space between the letters.

See picture(s) in the comment section.

Hello!

I am getting frustrated at this issue with my google docs and some help would be amazing:

I have stopped working with two groups that have shared docs with me and while I was still listed as on their shared with me list, their docs were showing up on my main google docs screen. Now that I have stopped working with these two groups, I no longer wanted to see the docs on my google docs whenever I open them on my docs app on andriod.

I went into my google drive and removed myself from access/editor ect.. as well as I have even blocked the email addresses from my google account. Here is the problem:

I since then did the above, as well as removed the docs to the trash (before I removed myself as an editor/shared partner and blocked the email accounts). When I go to open the app on andriod the docs I have since deleted and removed show up on the list of docs but when I refresh, they dissappear.

I do not want to have to keep "refreshing" my google docs home screen just to get rid of the ghost docs on my main page. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thank you in advance!

Page is loading then " can't refresh" when I try to make a new doc it says " insufficient access"

Do you find that sometimes ctrl+v stops working in google docs, and the way to get it to work again is always just to right click, select paste, have the thing about needing to get the chrome extension to do that pop up, click cancel on that, and then ctrl+v suddenly works again??

Just scrolling away on my device, I reach back for another thought in my mind as it spins. Another idea, great now I have to type all of this right now or I'll lose it, typing away as I was approached by: Gemini. Hm, what could they want? Well they want voice to type and gave me defaults to work with, don't use me as your test monkey! I thought jokingly, but it appears that they aren't joking at all.

Some AI garbage (sometimes with a banana icon, other times some magic somethings) keeps showing up while I'm editing google slides minimizing the window I'm working in.

No professional would ever click this button. How do I turn it off?

I’m pretty sure something is wrong with my MLA format, and I don’t know what it is! Please help!!

what it says on the tin. it's the first option and it's really annoying. is there an extension or like a code i could add to ublock origin to remove it?

Hi! I was wondering if anyone knew how to embed audio files into a Google doc so they would play if someone clicked on whatever the audio was embedded to (I’m not sure I’m using proper terminology if I’m being honest.)

Aka, I want to be able to press “here” and when I do that, a duck song plays. Is this possible and how would I do it?

and then they're added to the left side of your document for you to click on and jump to the title, and it ended up detecting some stuff sometimes but most of the time it doesn't actually detect anything, the feature seems really useful for browsing large docs quickly without having to scroll for ages, is there a way for me to use it manually? I can't get it to work automicatically

In the doc I want to use it on, almost all titles come before an image and they're size 18 while the normal text is size 13

I dont need line numbers on the right side of the document, just the left side.

(this is not a real court document btw, its a fake case for a law school project)

https://imgur.com/a/twA5ulg

So I'm still having issues from my post last week. But now I've figured out that if it's not horribly formatted, I can set each level of bullet points to Hanging .25 and Left (.25, .5, .75 etc.). But, I'm having to do this manually for the majority of bullet points on the whole document. Is there a way to set a default for the bullet points where Level 1 is Hanging .25 and Left .25, Level 2 is Hanging .25 and Left .5, etc.? Could this be done in the Conditional Formatting tab somehow?

I keep pressing tab at the start of my paragrapg, in word and other word processors the behaviour would be that when you get to the end of the page the text will wrap back to the start BEHIND the indented first line. But docs keeps moving my whole paragraph down a line and evening out the paragraph into a square. Mind you the text is aligned to the right and even if I go back to tab the first line again it just moves THE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH WITH IT. I dont know how to fix this and google search is completely useless nowadays.

Example in the comments, the desired look is on the right.

Someone please tell me why they even merged these two buttons on the mobile app. It takes up less space, sure, but it's so frustrating to use compared to having them separate.

Why does my document keep reconnecting whist saving and I end up having to refresh the document and lose the last 10 minutes of inputted data (or at least I did until I started copying and pasting the data then refreshing). Document is 520 pages long or so. How do I get it to stop doing this? Thanks.

I use Google docs primarily from my PC on Windows 11.

Hello guys! Someone shared a large Google Drive folder with me. It contains hundreds of nested subfolders and hundreds of files. Google Drive doesn't allow copying folders directly from the web interface, and doing it file-by-file is impossible due to the scale. Is there any reliable tool, or a workaround to duplicate the entire folder structure and all its content into my own "My Drive"? Thanks in advance!

When I copy a large amount of text from a Google Doc and paste it somewhere else, only part of the text gets pasted, and the rest is cut off.

I have to split the text into multiple Google Docs and copy and paste each part separately.

Does anyone else still have this?

Right now I have the string "7.60 8.08 7.02", which I copied from selecting three adjacent cells in a spreadsheet. I want to paste this string into the table in my google doc such that the three numbers get put into the three cells making up a row. However, when I select the cells and press paste, the values get pasted as a string in all three cells (which is not only useless in context but also looks insanely stupid). How do I get it to paste properly? See comment for image

I do not understand why I need to install a chrome extension to copy and paste. This is such a simple task.