Gmail has made a new small update to make it easy and immediate to edit Microsoft Office documents directly from the email from which they were received or sent. When you receive an attachment written with Word, Excel or Powerpoint, you will now see three buttons in Gmail: one to open it, one to download it and a third to edit it.
When you press the button to edit the doc or docx, xlx or xlsx, ppt or pptx file, the related Google Docs web application opens and you can make the changes you want even without having to have Office programs on your computer.
The document opened in Google Drive is converted into the Google Docs format and made editable.
Your changes are automatically saved to your personal Google Drive space.
This function, in addition to being particularly convenient for those who do not have Microsoft Office on the PC, is also very useful for collaboration because the changes are automatically synchronized in the cloud and all collaborators can therefore always view and check the most recent version of that document, at any time.
If you don't want to convert the received file, you can open and edit Office files thanks to the Chrome Office Editor extension that allows users to view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in Google Drive, even if Microsoft has not been installed Office.
Gmail is now increasingly close to Microsoft, which with Office Online integrated into Outlook.com allows you to do the same things.
