Google Docs Search – Ctrl + F Not Working for Browser Page Search When Using Google Docs

There is a solution here;

http://www.ampercent.com/create-desktop-shortcuts-of-google-docs-documents/6710/

1. Open the document or spreadsheet in your Google docs account and copy the full URL of the document.
2. Create a new desktop shortcut and type the URL of he document in the shortcuts location.
3. All done, now you have a new shortcut in your desktop – double clicking which will launch the Google document in a new browser tab or window. Now associate specific icon files with these shortcuts so that you can identify them at a glance.

Hope this helps.

It seems that Google Docs remember "Compact Controls" mode only for Spreadsheets.

There's a plugin for Chrome called Compactor for Google Docs.

However, since Spreadsheets remember the last setting, the plugin will effectively toggle the mode each time you open a Spreadsheet doc, but will work correctly with other types.

So, at the moment, it seems there is no really good way to reliably and permanently switch to Compact Controls. Hopefully, either Google Docs, or plugin author fixes that soon.