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I just had a panic moment when I thought that a Google document I’d spent the better part of a week writing had vanished. This is what I plan to do from now on, once a week, until I forget about it and stop doing it.<\/p>\n

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  1. In Google Docs, go down to the far left bottom menu item, and select “More V” and then “All Items”.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the select box at the top of the screen next to “TITLE” to select all items.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the “More V” button at the top middle of the screen, next to the eyeball (“Preview”) icon, and select “Download”.<\/li>\n
  4. Select “Change all formats to… OpenOffice”, and click the “Download” button.<\/li>\n
  5. Wait a couple of minutes and then download the file somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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