Voice commands for Google Docs

Start voice typing

1. Check that your microphone works.
2. Open a document in Google docs with a Chrome browser.
3. Click Tools > Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
4. When you’re ready to speak, click the microphone.
5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
6. When you’re done, click the microphone again.

Correct mistakes while voice typing

• If you make a mistake while you’re typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.
• After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.
• To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in grey.

You can use these phrases to add punctuation to your text:

• Period
• Comma
• Exclamation point
• Question mark
• New line
• New paragraph

To select text, say these commands:

• Select [word or phrase]
• Select all
• Select all matching text
• Select list item
• Select list items at current level
• Select next character
• Select next [number] characters
• Select last character
• Select last [number] characters
• Select line
• Select next line
• Select next [number] lines
• Select last line
• Select last [number] lines
• Select paragraph
• Select next paragraph
• Select next [number] paragraphs
• Select last paragraph
• Select last [number] paragraphs
• Select word
• Select next word
• Select next [number] words
• Select last word
• Select last [number] words
• Deselect
• Unselect
• Select none

To format your document, say these commands:

Alignment

• Align center
• Align justified
• Align left
• Align right
• Center align
• Left align
• Right align

Text formatting

• Apply heading [1–6]
• Apply normal text
• Apply subtitle
• Apply title
• Bold
• Italicize
• Italics
• Strikethrough
• Subscript
• Superscript
• Underline

Text color and highlighting

• Text color [color]
• Highlight
• Highlight [color]
• Background color [color]
• Remove highlight
• Remove background color

Note: The colors available are: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta. If you say “highlight” by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.

Font size

• Decrease font size
• Increase font size
• Font size [6-400]
• Make bigger
• Make smaller

Paragraph formatting

• Decrease indent
• Increase indent
• Line spacing [1-100]
• Line spacing double
• Line spacing single

Lists

• Create bulleted list
• Create numbered list
• Insert bullet
• Insert number

Remove formatting

• Clear formatting
• Remove formatting
• Remove bold
• Remove italics
• Remove strikethrough
• Remove underline

To edit your document, say these commands:

• Copy
• Cut
• Paste
• Copy link
• Delete
• Delete last word
• Delete link
• Insert table of contents
• Delete table of contents
• Update table of contents
• Insert bookmark
• Insert equation
• Insert footer
• Insert footnote
• Insert header
• Insert horizontal line
• Insert page break

To add and edit tables, say these commands:

• Insert table
• Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns
• Insert row
• Insert column
• Insert new column
• Insert new column on the left
• Insert new row
• Insert new row above
• Insert new row below
• Delete column
• Delete row
• Delete table
• Remove column
• Remove row
• Remove table
• Exit table

To move around your document, say these commands:

Scroll

• Scroll down
• Scroll up

To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say “Resume.”

To move the cursor to a particular word or phrase, say “Resume with [word].” The cursor moves to the end of the word that you speak.

Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:

• Resume
• Resume with [word or phrase]
• Go to the end of the paragraph
• Move to the end of the paragraph
• Go to the end of the line
• Move to the end of the line

To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:

• Voice typing help
• Voice commands list
• See all voice commands