Google Docs Paginated View

With Google rolling out new features in its products almost every week, we can't help if this column starts looking like a Google blog.

This week, there was a small, but significant change in Google Docs. It has brought in Pagination, “the ability to see visual pages on your screen”.

What it means is this: The pagination feature adds visual breaks of pages as you create your document. So you now know the number of pages your document is likely to have as you type. The nice thing here is that the page breaks look like a separate page, instead of the usual thin line whose main intent seems to be to confuse us.

In the paginated version of Google Docs, document headers appear at the top of each page, instead of just on top of the first page. Footnotes automatically appear at the bottom of the page.

The new feature also includes what is called ‘native printing', though it is available only through Google Chrome now. Here, what you print will be exactly like what you see in your Google Docs, on your screen. There is no need to convert your document to PDF and then open it to see how it looks before printing. You can rest assured that the print output will be exactly like what you see on the screen.

If you don't want the paginated view and prefer the normal view, you can always go to View - Document view and select Compact View.

With Google adding more and more features to Docs, looks like the day is not far off when it will surpass the office application in your computer.

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