Until some time ago there was a plugin for Microsoft Office that allowed you to save every document written on your computer with Microsoft programs, even online on Google Drive by creating a synchronized copy on the cloud of the same file. Today this can still be done, but a manual approach is needed.
Google Drive, everyone knows it, is the best cloud application to keep files online so that they are available to everyone, which also includes apps for writing Word documents, Excel sheets and Powerpoint presentations, directly from the web browser, free and without downloading nothing.
Microsoft Office, on the other hand, offers direct integration with the Microsoft Onedrive cloud, but not with Google Drive. We therefore see, in this guide, how to save Word, Excel and Powerpoint files in Google Drive and, at the same time, to open the documents saved in Google Drive from Word, Excel and Powerpoint and also from the free programs of LibreOffice .
Once the Google Drive client is installed, you can proceed with access to the Google account and synchronization of the chosen files and folders. Synchronization does not have to be activated, but it is recommended to keep documents always available with the latest modified version. When using Word or Excel, you will then be able to open a file for editing from the Google Drive folder used to synchronize files. Similarly, when saving a file from WOrd, Excel and Powerpoint, you can select one that is internal to Google Drive as the save folder.
Attention only to the fact that it is not possible to open files created with the Google Docs suite using Google Drive web apps, as they do not have a compatible format (gsheet or gdoc) with Microsoft Office.
To do this, open a Libreoffice program such as Writer or Calc and press the File key to open a new document. Instead of pressing Open, choose Open Remote .
In the window that appears, click on Add service, select as Type : Google Drive, enter your Google account username and password (if you use two-factor authentication for Google you must use an application password). Finally give the account a title in the Label field and press OK to establish the connection.
Once the connection to Google Drive is activated, when you click on Save, the Save As dialog box appears for remote files and the same happens when you have to open a file. In this case the files are kept inside Google Drive, without having to create a copy on the PC in use.
For the previous steps to work, you need to have the latest version of LibreOffice for Windows and Mac (it doesn't work on Linux).
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Google Drive, everyone knows it, is the best cloud application to keep files online so that they are available to everyone, which also includes apps for writing Word documents, Excel sheets and Powerpoint presentations, directly from the web browser, free and without downloading nothing.
Microsoft Office, on the other hand, offers direct integration with the Microsoft Onedrive cloud, but not with Google Drive. We therefore see, in this guide, how to save Word, Excel and Powerpoint files in Google Drive and, at the same time, to open the documents saved in Google Drive from Word, Excel and Powerpoint and also from the free programs of LibreOffice .
Open and Save Microsoft Office files in Google Drive
First of all, to save files in Google Drive and also to open files from Google Drive, you need to install the Google Drive program which is available in two different versions, one for normal users, the other called Drive File Stream for business users or professionals with Google Suite accounts. Both versions can be downloaded from this page.Once the Google Drive client is installed, you can proceed with access to the Google account and synchronization of the chosen files and folders. Synchronization does not have to be activated, but it is recommended to keep documents always available with the latest modified version. When using Word or Excel, you will then be able to open a file for editing from the Google Drive folder used to synchronize files. Similarly, when saving a file from WOrd, Excel and Powerpoint, you can select one that is internal to Google Drive as the save folder.
Attention only to the fact that it is not possible to open files created with the Google Docs suite using Google Drive web apps, as they do not have a compatible format (gsheet or gdoc) with Microsoft Office.
Open and save documents from Google Drive with LibreOffice
If you use LibreOffice, the free office suite, you can open and save files from Google Drive with an internal integration to the free program, without having to keep the Google Drive program installed . LibreOffice users can then directly archive files such as spreadsheets, drawings, presentations and text documents on Google Drive or other cloud services, directly.To do this, open a Libreoffice program such as Writer or Calc and press the File key to open a new document. Instead of pressing Open, choose Open Remote .
In the window that appears, click on Add service, select as Type : Google Drive, enter your Google account username and password (if you use two-factor authentication for Google you must use an application password). Finally give the account a title in the Label field and press OK to establish the connection.
Once the connection to Google Drive is activated, when you click on Save, the Save As dialog box appears for remote files and the same happens when you have to open a file. In this case the files are kept inside Google Drive, without having to create a copy on the PC in use.
For the previous steps to work, you need to have the latest version of LibreOffice for Windows and Mac (it doesn't work on Linux).
READ ALSO: Chrome to edit Word, Excel, Powerpoint files, even offline
