Google Docs is more than just a free place to store and share files; it can also help you tweak and edit business documents from any location that has an Internet connection. You may discover, for example, that a Word document in your Google Docs account would look better with regular text rather than headings. Instead of downloading the file and updating the headings, use the Google Docs editor to format the headings as regular text online.
Navigate to your Google Docs page and review the files you’ve uploaded.
Double-click a file that has a heading you’d like to change to view it in the editor. This editor, which contains a toolbar and menu items, looks like a regular text editor
Highlight the heading and find the toolbar’s Style drop-down menu. This drop-down menu will show the word “Heading” followed by a number as its default selection. For instance, if you highlight a small “Heading 1” type heading, the menu’s default selection will be “Heading 1.” If you highlight a “Heading 2” type menu, the default selection will be “Heading 2.”
Click the drop-down menu and then click the “Normal Text.” The editor converts the heading into normal text.
- If you are not familiar with headings, you may think that a word with a large font, such as 36 pixels, is a heading. That is not true because headings are special character strings that the Google Docs editor recognizes as headings. If you highlight text that has a large font, the Style drop-down menu’s default value will still be “Normal Text” because the text would not be a heading. If you are not sure if text in a document is a heading, you can simply highlight the text and let the Style drop-down menu tell you what it is.
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