Inserting Images, Links, Charts, and Drawings

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How to insert an image, link, drawing, chart, and comment into a Google Doc.

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Inserting Images, Links, Charts, and Drawings

The “Insert” tab allows you to add several different non-text elements to Google Docs.

When to use

When you want to add an image, equation, chart, table, or footnote, or edit an image inside Google Docs.

Instructions

Add an image

  • Click “Insert”
  • Click “Image”
  • Choose an option:
    • Upload: Drag and drop an image from your computer, or click “Choose an image to upload” and select the image on your computer.
    • Take a snapshot: Take a picture using your webcam. You might have to click “allow” to give the Google Apps permission to use your webcam.
    • By URL: Paste the URL of an image from the internet.
    • Your albums: Add an image from your Google+ images.
    • Google Drive: Add an image from your Google Drive.
    • Search: To search for stock images.
  • Click “Select”

Add an equation

  • Click “Insert”
  • Click “Equation”
  • Type your equation, and click on the symbols in the equations bar to add them where you want.

Create an image

  • Click “Insert”
  • Click “Drawing”
  • Create your image using the Google Drawings App window
  • Click “Save & Close”

Add a chart

  • Click “Insert”
  • Click “Chart”
  • Choose the type of chart
  • Click “Open in Sheets” to edit the chart
  • After editing, click “Update” to apply changes to the chart

Add a table

  • Click “Insert”
  • Click “Table”
  • Click the boxes to choose the height and width of the table
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  • 00:04 Adding and editing text is one of the most common uses within Google Documents.
  • 00:10 But, of course, we can insert and add even further content into our document.
  • 00:15 Let's take a look at the insert menu to see what else we can add.
  • 00:19 The first option is to add an image to our document.
  • 00:23 Simply select the area of the document,
  • 00:25 where you would like that image to appear, and select image.
  • 00:29 Now, there's a few different ways in which we can add an image.
  • 00:32 We can choose an image from our computer to upload,
  • 00:36 we can also choose to take a snapshot using our webcam.
  • 00:41 And you may need to allow Google permission to access your webcam to do so.
  • 00:46 We can also add an image by URL.
  • 00:49 You can copy the image URL and then paste it into the field here.
  • 00:53 If you have albums within Google, you can also select them and
  • 00:57 add them directly to your document.
  • 01:00 You can also access other image files from your Google Drive account and
  • 01:05 add them to your document.
  • 01:06 Lastly, we can search a number of free stock images using this search bar here.
  • 01:14 I'm gonna go back to my Google Drive and find an image here.
  • 01:18 By selecting this image, it
  • 01:21 will input that image directly where my cursor was last.
  • 01:25 And now, I can move it around and edit this image within the document,
  • 01:28 including resizing this image, if I like.
  • 01:32 Let's take a look at some of the other options we have available to us as well.
  • 01:36 We can choose to insert a link.
  • 01:38 Just select the piece of text that you would like to link.
  • 01:42 Select insert link and you can paste your desired link directly in here.
  • 01:49 Our third option is to insert an equation into our document.
  • 01:54 By selecting this option, we can start to enter in our new equation here, or
  • 01:59 take a look at some particular defaults.
  • 02:02 For example, there may be a mathematical equation or
  • 02:05 a mathematical symbol that you would like to insert into your document.
  • 02:10 We can also insert a drawing if we like.
  • 02:13 And by selecting Drawing, we get a new dialogue window in which we can start
  • 02:18 to add a new piece of text or start drawing some new lines.
  • 02:23 Let's say I'd like to add a simple x into my document.
  • 02:27 I'm gonna say Save & Close and there we have the drawing that I just created.
  • 02:33 We can also insert a chart, and in fact, a variety of different charts if we like,
  • 02:38 including a bar graph, column, line, or a pie chart.
  • 02:43 And we can also pull in a chart directly from sheets.
  • 02:48 If I select one of these options, it will insert a basic or a templated chart.
  • 02:54 And then if I want to edit this data,
  • 02:58 I can click on the text and select open in sheets.
  • 03:04 This will open up a new tab where I can start to relabel these titles and
  • 03:09 I can start adding new pieces of data.
  • 03:12 And as mentioned before, you can do this directly from within sheets,
  • 03:15 as well, by selecting the content that you may have already created.
  • 03:20 And lastly, we can add a table,
  • 03:24 which can be a great way to group pieces of information within Google Documents.
  • 03:29 You can select the size of your table here,
  • 03:32 all the way to a maximum of 20 rows by 20 columns.
  • 03:38 So there you can see,
  • 03:39 we can add a variety of different content to our Google documents.
  • 03:45 Whether they be images, or charts, or even drawings that we've created ourselves.
  • 03:50 Start by adding new pieces of content to bring your documents to life.

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