Documents and Drive
Where every file is kept: making and uploading documents, each file’s menu, and the tools for scanning paper in and filing it.
2 parts · 1 minDocuments and formsFor the office
The lesson plays on a sample agency, so nothing you do in it changes anything. Open any item in the lesson's panel to read about it, and press See how to watch it done.
What this lesson covers
Everything the lesson says, part by part.
- 1
On the way: Drive is in the sidebar.
This is Drive
Every document your agency keeps, in folders and filed under the client or caregiver it belongs to.
In the sidebar under Drive.
On this page
Every fileFolders, documents, uploads
Each row shows what it is, who it is filed under, who added it and when it changed.
Read the guideSee how shows:
- Your files Newest changes first.
Make or upload somethingFolders, documents, uploads
New makes a folder, a spreadsheet, a note, a document or a form, or uploads files from your computer.
See how shows:
- New › Upload files PDFs, photos, Word and Excel.
Each file’s menuOpen, download, rename, remind
Each file opens, downloads, renames or is deleted from its menu, and can carry a reminder.
See how shows:
- Add reminder Right-click a file, or hold it on a phone. Handy for a card that expires.
Find a fileBy name, type, person or date
Search Drive by name, or narrow it by type, by person and by when it changed.
See how shows:
- Search Drive The filters sit beside it.
Bring back a deleted fileRecently deleted
Recently deleted keeps what was removed, so you can bring it back.
See how shows:
- Find a file, or bring one back
- Search searches every folder Clients’ and caregivers’ folders too. Filter to projects or a kind of file.
- Recently deleted Deleted files stay here for a while. Open one to restore it where it was.
Scan paper inAnd the other document tools
The document tools scan paper in and file it, search inside documents, and keep collections.
See how jumps ahead to part 2: Your document tools.
Read the guide - 2
On the way: Scan paper in opens the document tools.
Your document tools
Everything on file: forms, scans, faxes and uploads, with tools for each one.
Drive › Scan paper in. Back to Drive takes you back.
On this page
Scan a stack inScans or photos, filed for you
Drop a folder of scans or photos and file each one against the right person.
Read the guideSee how shows:
- Scan paper in Each page is filed for you to check.
Work on one documentMark up, split, redact, route
Each document can be marked up, made fillable, split, checked, redacted or sent on a route, and keeps its history.
See how shows:
- Open a document Press any file in Drive. Its tools run along the top.
- Mark up Write, highlight or stamp on it.
- Split Make one file of each part.
- Redact Black out what others should not see.
- Send on a route Each person signs or approves in turn.
Make a paper form fillableSo it can be filled in on screen
Make it fillable turns a paper form into a form in Forms that people fill in and sign on screen. Form fields, beside it, adds boxes to this PDF and keeps it a PDF.
Read the guideSee how shows:
- Open a document Press any file in Drive. Its tools run along the top.
- Make it fillable It becomes a form in Forms that people fill in and sign on screen.
Back to DriveYour folders again
Back to Drive returns you to your folders.
See how shows:
- Back to Drive At the top of the tools.
At the end
Now you know where your documents are kept
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