How to upload Office files to Google Drive. If you have Office documents stored locally on your computer, you can upload them to Google Drive for storage and online editing.

Google also offers several ways to edit Microsoft Office files stored on Google Drive. Edit capabilities vary by operating system. Here’s a look at the options as of August 2015.

Using the new Google Drive plug-in, people using Office for Windows can now open their Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents stored in Drive, then save any changes back to Drive once they’re done.

Google is now updating it with features from the Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office, which is being killed in June. Launched in 2017, Drive File Stream allows users to access Team Drives and other ...

Unlike Microsoft Office and Google Drive, you cannot access iWork applications from Android devices, not even using a mobile browser. That means iWork is only going to work if you use Apple devices.

So you want your Drive apps to be ready for offline work, just like Office will always be at the ready even if you’re offline. To do this, in Google Drive go to Settings > Offline .

Both Google and Microsoft offer similar word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools, but the full version of Microsoft Office is more robust and capable than Google Drive’s online ...

But, Google has steadily been adding more and more features so that Drive is almost as useful as Office or iWork. One of our favorite features is that everything you create or edit is ...

Google Drive has a built-in document scanner, and it can digitize your documents in seconds. ... Back in days gone by, a scanner was an incredibly important part of any office setup.