To open your offline documents, open in chrome browser, it will take some time but will opened.

Here you have to enable offline mode to create and edit document.Īfter enabling these settings, make the documents available offline by right click on the document and select as “available at offline”.

After adding this extension go to Google Drive settings.

Download this Google Docs offline extension for Google chrome.

Steps for editing Google Drive existing documents offline If you want to edit the existing Google Drive documents, sheets, slides follow the following steps. If you have MS office installed you can still open this file using MS office format.

When you save the document, it will be shown as OOXML text document, but you need not to worry. For this you have to first save the document locally. If you want to save the file after editing in local storage that is also possible. The file format will also not been change after editing, you can upload the documents to Google Drive after editing or can save them in local storage. Just drag and drop the file inside the new tab of chrome. When extension is added, you can edit any documents (.doc.After installing, enable this extension if not enabled by default using Chrome Settings> Extensions.Download and install offline extension for Google chrome using this page or search “office editing for docs” in Chrome Web Store.Steps for editing documents offline using Google Docs offline extension It is desirable for security of your documents that you should not enable or use offline Google Drive extension on public computers. Further this feature will not work in in private window. If you want to edit create and edit documents offline there is solution for this using Google Docs offline extension for Google Chrome.īefore going ahead make sure that Google Chrome is installed in your PC, you have logged in Google chrome using your Google account. There are no such apps available for Google Drive as like MS Office to edit documents in your PC, though you can sync documents to Google Drive using their app. But the drawback of Google Drive is that you have to work online in Google Drive to edit documents. Google Documents, Sheets and Slides are now very popular and alternative of Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.

Google Docs offline extension for Google Chrome – create and edit documents

Google doc offline extension