Google Docs has many tools for making quick text and formatting adjustments first make sure you have plenty of amazing fonts to use to get more fonts than the default ones provided choose the fonts menu and select more fonts you can search for a specific font or sort them by popularity date added or what's trending simply click on a font to add it to your fonts menu it'll be available for use in all your Google Docs and slides not just the current one and to remove any fonts that you don't like from your fonts menu just click the X next to its name in the my fonts panel and choose ok when done if you copy and paste text from the web or another document its style often won't match or it might have unusual spacing that you just can't seem to get rid of to fix this highlight the text and choose the clear formatting tool so the selection will match the rest of your document if your toolbar doesn't have a clear formatting button you can also find this tool via the format menu a quick tip to avoid having to clear formatting is to paste in your text without the formatting in the first place by using ctrl shift V to paste in your text for example if I use ctrl C to copy this text and then use the standard pasting shortcut of ctrl V to add the text to my document its formatting is going to come along with it if instead I use ctrl + Shift + V to paste in the text it will come in without formatting which saves me the step of having to remove that formatting you can also use the right-click menu to select paste without formatting capitalization is not considered formatting so clear formatting won't help you switch from upper to lower case however you can't easily switch between all caps and lower case by selecting format text upper or lower case to make faster selections in Google Docs you can double click on any word and it will be selected and triple clicking will select your entire paragraph superscript and subscript for formula writing is accomplished by selecting the text and then choosing format text superscript or subscript the shortcut is ctrl + period for superscript in control + comma for subscript paint formatting allows you to quickly copy formatting from one area of your document to others highlight the formatting that you want to apply to another area and then click the paint floor map button in the toolbar your cursor will change into a paint roller now highlight the text you want to apply the formatting to and it will update to match your copied style once you release your mouse the cursor reverts back to normal operation to change formatting in multiple places within your document select your text and then double click the paint roller icon you'll enter a mode that lets you highlight multiple text selections and apply the same formatting to each and when you're done applying formatting click the paint roller icon again to exit this mode even faster than paint formatting is using text styles the text Styles menu has default styles for titles subtitles and headings but you can adjust all of these by default anything you type in the document is styled as normal text to change it highlight the text and select the appropriate option from the text Styles menu the advantage of applying a style is that you can apply changes to all similar Styles at once now that I've identified all of these as heading ones I can highlight this one make any formatting changes that I want to then I can visit the textiles menu and choose to update the heading 1 style to match and all of my headings are updated in one click this makes changing your formatting much easier and faster this is especially true if you have a different font for headings than you do for your paragraph text if I wanted to change the text of this entire document except for my headings ctrl a is not a great option because it would end up changing the text of my headings too so instead I can simply select a section of normal text change the font and then update my style if you want to save your set of styles as your default for use in other documents simply visit the textile menu and choose options save as my default styles headings are automatically added to the outline view which you can access by choosing view show document outline if you see this icon your outline view is already active you just need to click the icon to expand it the outline view essentially creates a table of links for quick navigation through your document and if you want to provide a link to an item outside your document without the long URL like this one taking up space just simply go to the website or online resource that you want to link and copy that address now select your text and use the chain link icon on the toolbar to turn your text into a clickable link without all the clutter these editing shortcuts and tips will hopefully allow you to quickly style your Google Docs just the way you want to