How to Create Shortcut of Google Docs in Desktop

Google Docs is a collection of online office suite. Users who want to collaborate with each other use Google Docs, it makes their task easier and speedy. Instead of using Microsoft Office, many people have started to take benefit of these collection of online office suites. To create a new Document, you need to go to docs.google.com and then click on Create New and then on your choice of document i.e. Document, presentation, spreadsheet, form, drawing or collection. And then you can start adding your information there.

Do you want a shortcut for this ? Then just drag and drop below links in your Bookmark toolbar. This will make it very easy to start creating new Google Docs document easy.

New Document – New Presentation – New Spreadsheet

Whenever you click on this link, a new Google Docs Document, presentation or spreadsheet will be created. This method is very useful for those, who are always online and who don’t like to close their browsers. Basically we are created a new bookmark button for this task. You can even create desktop shortcuts for Google Docs. Lets see how.

How to create Google Docs Shortcuts on the Desktop & Start Menu

1. Right click on Desktop and then go to New > Shortcut
2. Type this location in the box provided:
   http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc
3. Type a Name for this shortcut and click on Finish
4. Finally, you can even change this shortcut icon to something that represents Google Docs spreadsheet, document or presentation. To do this, right click on that icon and click on Properties. Now click on Change icon. (Refer below screenshot)

Just repeat the steps to create any shortcuts. You can even find shortcut icons on the web that represents them. Below are URL for your reference:

http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc (Document)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?new (Spreadsheet)
http://docs.google.com/?action=new_presentation (Presentation)

You can even drag these shortcuts to Start menu or quick launch bar. In case, you are using Google apps for your domain, then use the below mentioned URLs:

http://docs.google.com/a/your_domain.com/?action=newdoc
http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/your_domain.com/ccc?new
http://docs.google.com/a/your_domain.com/?action=new_presentation

But these links are for only Google Apps users. Hope this helps you to create desktop shortcuts of Google Docs.