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Google for Beginners by Papercut Ltd

This guide book is the first and only choice if you are a new adopter and want to learn everything you'll need to get started with Google's amazing free app suite. This independent manual is crammed with helpful guides and step-by-step fully illustrated tutorials, written in plain easy to follow English. Over the pages of this new user guide you will clearly learn all you need to know about out of the box set up, getting to grips with the more advanced features and discover a huge array of amazing apps. With this unofficial instruction manual at your side no problem will be unsolvable, no question unanswered as you learn, explore and enhance your user experience.

 
 

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Customising the Chrome Browser

There are many different ways you can customise your Chrome experience, from adding extensions to setting the default home page. If you really want to make Chrome personal to you, there is no better way than adding a theme.

Changing the Theme

Step 1: Open Chrome on your computer and click on the Chrome Menu button in the top right corner. Look for the Chrome options link, click this and select Settings and this window will open.

Step 2: From the Settings screen click on Themes from the Appearance options. This will take you to the Chrome Web Store, which shows web apps and extensions. To view the available themes, scroll down to the left-hand menu and click the Themes link. A selection of themes will now be displayed on screen.

Step 3: To select and activate a theme, simply roll over the thumbnail and click the Add to Chrome button. Your chosen theme is automatically downloaded, installed and activated in a few seconds (depending on your broadband connection speed). If you want to read more about a theme, roll over the thumbnail and then click on the text.

Step 4: Themes you download aren't saved on your computer, so applying a new theme will overwrite the previous one. You can remove a custom theme at any time by clicking the Chrome options button, then selecting Settings. Under the Appearance heading you will see the option to Reset to Default Theme.

Change the Default Home Page

Chrome gives you several choices for what you see when you start it up. You may decide that you want to always open with the Google home page or you may want to show a selection of your most visited sites. All of these options are accessed through Options > Settings > On Startup.

Open the New Tab Page

This option will display a grid of eight website thumbnails. Each thumbnail relates to one of your eight most visited web pages. Click on any of the thumbnails to go to the page. You can remove any of the thumbnails by hovering the mouse pointer over it and then clicking the X that appears in the top right corner.

Continue Where I Left Off

If this option is enabled, Chrome will always start up showing the website and tabs you were viewing when you last closed the browser. If you close all of the open tabs individually, rather than clicking the X at the top right to close the entire browser window, when you open Chrome again it will display the New Tab page.

Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages

You can use this option to set a single web page to open whenever you start Chrome. This could be the Google home page for your country, the Facebook login or any other web page you choose. You can also choose a set of pages to open. Click Set Pages and enter the URLs of the sites you want to open. They will each open in a separate tab when you start Chrome.

Show the Home Button

When you first install and use Chrome, you will probably notice that there is no Home button in the toolbar. We don't really understand why Google chose to hide the Home button but you can activate it easily, so it's not too much of a problem. To activate the Home button, click the Options button and select Settings. Under the Appearance heading, check the box next to Show Home Button. You can choose which page is displayed when the Home button is clicked (the New Tabs page or another of your choice).