How to Set Up Google Docs Offline

Now Google is making its Google Drive more than online storage service . Google has added offline feature to its Google Docs service which allow users to edit documents stored in Google Drive while they are not connected to internet. When they will go online, offile changes will be there in the documents. In this post, i will write how to setup and use Google Docs offline.
Before going to write anything, i want to tell you that this feature is only available for Google Chrome. If you ar mozilla or intrnet explorer user, download and install Google Chrome browser.


Now go to Google Drive package and click on gear icon ar the top right corner of the page. 

Here, click on Set up Google Docs offline. Now you will see a popup window for setup process. Click on Enable Offline Docs and then install Drive Web app on Google Chrome.

After installion, go to Google Drive home. It will start synchronizing your documents with offline app. To see which documents are available offline, click the gear icon and choose "view offline Docs." Bookmark this page to access all your documents offline without internet connection.


Few things to Know about this new update:

• You can not create new documents offline.
• You can only see Documents and Spreadsheets offline. Presentations, Drawings, and Forms are not available offline.

Let us know how you feel after this update. Comment below your experience.

Google docs can search text in images and PDF

Google has just rolled out a new update to Google docs which brings new comment system and optical character recognition technology. Google has also added some other small features.
Google has added all comments at one place to make it easier to see the log of all the comments that have been made whether you’re using drawings, documents, or presentations. Now its easy to reply on a comment with the comment button on the upper right corner of the editor. Use this button to see all the comments and add a comment.

Google has also added its improved character recognition technology to Google Docs. So Google Docs can now search texts inside an image or in a scanned document and PDF files. This is really a nice feature which brings power to Google docs.
Some other feature includes custom javascript and Css support. Now you can see full name in comments and documents in the place of email address. It has also added keyboard support to navigating between table cells in documents.
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