Typing Resume in Google Drive
Google Docs now changed it's name to Google drive, has a powerful feature to create, upload and collaborate documents within office or with your friends. Google drive offers 5 GB of on-line cloud storage; free of charge and user/s always has option to upgrade to a greater storage area with little charges. It definitely not an exact replacement of Microsoft Office but it is an alternative to some extent. All the options are there but need to do some practice to adopt the new functionality of Google Drive.
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| Resume With Google Docs - 1 |
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| Resume With Google Docs - 2 |
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In this tutorial, I am going to show you, how to create a nice looking (as above) "Resume"; using just Google document. Please follow the following steps -
- First, you need to login into your google account.
- Then click on google drive and click on create.
- For this example, we're creating a document. So after clicking on create, choose documents.
- It'll just create a new document, click on the top left hand corner, where it says - "Untitled Document" and update the name to whatever you want.
- Now, from the file drop-down menu, click on page setup and change the size and border margins of your document. You can change the Background Color of the document from here as well.
- As shown in the example, first need to create a "Square Box". Click on "Insert" then choose Drawing and create a square box, then "Save and Close".
- By default, that square box is setup as "In line with Text" and when you start typing, letter will appear after the box. So, need to change the typing position, click on that box and choose "Fixed Location" and now you'll be able to type just beside the box as my example.
- For that horizontal line after your name and address details, click on "Insert" then choose "Horizontal Line".
- Now, we need to add Header and Footer into this document. Click on "Insert" again and from this dropdown, select "Header" then type whatever you like to add in the header section.
- In "Footer", I always like to add number of pages. It works a little different then word. Need to follow two step process, first click on Insert, then choose Page Number then it'll appear at the bottom as you have two options "Top or Bottom".
- Then click Insert one more time and choose Page Count; you can add anything between Page Number and Page Count, as I used "Page 1 of 1".
- For adding the Header Titles like - "KEY STRENGTHS", "CAREER OBJECTIVES", "EMPLOYMENT HISTORY", I used heading option 4 from dropdown located just beside the font selector panel.
- Under "Employment History", for aligning the text properly, I used table and changed the border color to page color by right clicking on any cell then choose "Table Properties" and select "Table Border" to page color. You also, have an option to select the table background color as well.
- For adding that Drawing, follow the same steps, explained in 6 and 7
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