Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Gpf Basics: Response To A Theme Or Respond A Question

March 2019: the Google assist forums are moving to a novel platform integrated amongst the Google Help Centers. These instructions no longer apply.

The Google Product Forums are the best house to instruct assistance from your boyfriend users - together with sometimes the exclusively house other than the product's Help Center.

Your start pace is to find the correct google production assist forum.  You may abide by the respond to your query or the data you lot convey been looking for inwards the forum's Pinned topics or afterward doing a search. Or mayhap you lot stumble on a query you lot know the respond to.

If you lot desire to add together your ain vocalisation to a conversation inwards a Google Product Forum, all you lot demand to practise is to click Reply, join the forum (if you lot haven't done hence already), together with post your response.

If you lot desire to a greater extent than details virtually your post reply options, read on!

GPF Basics: getting some the Google Product Forums

1. Find the correct google production assist forum!
2. Join the forum together with configure your membership together with e-mail settings
3. Search the forum together with read pinned topics 

>> 4. Reply to a topic
  • Open the topic
  • Click "Reply" or the reply icon at the overstep or bottom of the discussion
  • Enable or disable e-mail notifications
  • Format your reply, insert images, attach references
  • Post
5. Post a novel theme of you lot own 
6. Find your discussions



Reply to a post inwards the Google Product Forums


When you lot find a topic that asks for your feedback, describes your outcome or is a query you lot tin dismiss answer, click "Reply" to add together your response.

Note: if a poster is beingness assisted, or your query is slightly dissimilar from theirs, drive non to hijack their topic! Better to post a novel theme of your ain to enquire for assistance.

Reply to a novel topic

There are 2 places to reply to a novel topic:
  • Click "Add a Reply" on the overstep correct of the master copy theme post

  • Click "Add Reply" below the post


If at that spot are already responses inwards an ongoing news you lot tin dismiss too click the Reply arrow on whatever post inwards the discussion.


Tip: if you lot click the Reply arrow on a post, you lot volition hold out able to quote that post amongst a unmarried click.

Post Reply Options

When you lot click "Reply" a post box volition popular up. If you lot convey non even hence joined the forum, you lot volition hold out prompted to join.


Note: Top Contributors, Rising Stars together with other forum experts may come across additional options.

Type your reply, together with then click POST

This is all you lot demand to practise to reply. The other options are optional!

Enable "Email me news activities" 

Click the box to the left to enable e-mail notifications of novel replies to the topic.

Minimize or unopen reply editor

  • Click the X on the overstep correct to unopen the reply box.  

Tip: if you lot inadvertently unopen the reply editor earlier posting, it's non lost! Just click the same "Reply" push together with you lot should come across your draft response.

  • Click the underscore _  to minimize the post editor
Tip: minimize the post editor to re-read the post you lot are replying to

 Format text

Format the text of your reply, including font size, color together with layout.


Insert image

Click the photographic telly camera icon to insert an icon inwards your post.

Insert link

              Click the chain icon to insert a link. Note that you lot tin dismiss but glue a URL into a post instead.

Attach a reference
Click the paperclip icon to attach a reference. It tin dismiss hold out a file, spider web page, icon or video.  
          Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 thumbnail of the reference volition display at the bottom of a post.
 
Click "web search" on the left to abide by together with attach  a reference from the Help Center

Quote post you lot are replying to

            Click the quotation grade icon to quote the post you lot are reply to.  
            You volition hold out able to edit the quoted text. 

Tip: if at that spot are multiple participants inwards a discussion, adding the quoted text makes clear who you lot are responding to.

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