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Googling it the Google Way - Exploring the power of tiny species called Addons!

Googling it the Google Way - Exploring the power of tiny species called Addons! Date: 15th Feb 2018/Thursday  This blog post is inspired by the amazing functionality of the tiny species called Addons [1] . Add-ons are basically programs that enhance the existing functionality of the Google Suite Core Services like Sheets, Docs and Forms. These are created by third party developers , using Google App Script which is based on JavaScript. The best part is you do not need to know with coding language to work with addons, you can use them as easily as you could imagine. Google basically has divided the add-on into three sets , namely add-ons for Sheets,Forms and Docs. these are use for multiple purposes, for example add-on in docs could be used for creating forms (using the DOC to Form add-on), shortening URLs, creating citations and bibliographies, add-on in sheets [2 ] could be used for mail merge, grading quizzes, sharing documents etc) and in forms to create quizzes. Which act