Creating a new file, whether Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Forms, in Chrome is easy, if you know the proper URL shortcuts. Let's dig into those.

Instead of opening Google Docs directly in your browser, you can click on a shortcut on your taskbar or desktop and open the app that way. To do this, open Google Chrome and go to docs.google.com .

A file with a .URL extension, aka website shortcut, is launched in a default browser when double-clicked.The .URL file can be created by quickly dragging the URL from the address bar to any empty ...

Creating a keyboard shortcut that opens your browser to the Google Docs upload option won't save you a lot of time, but you'll more easily transmit files as e-mail attachments.

Open bookmarked links in new tabs. If you've bookmarked lots of pages, you can middle-click any bookmark to open it in a new browser tab. Similarly, if you have a folder full of bookmarks, you can ...