Do you know how to access Google Docs offline? If you are among those who tend to stock up everything in Google Drive; be it personal or professional documents, then it must be of a great necessity to know how to use Google Drive files offline?
Google hosts a huge number of productivity applications like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that can be accessed on various devices synchronously from Google Drive. These applications were earlier available for editing only online; however, the update on the offline availability of the productivity apps of Google was announced on April 24, 2019, via Google Blog.
Since we cannot avail of internet connection at all times and places even in this digital era, hence, in this article, we will look at how Google Docs can be set up for offline use?
For the convenience of understanding, we will look at how you can work with Google Docs on your PC and mobile under offline conditions. Let’s begin with the offline Setup process of Google Docs on your PC. The same procedure is applicable to Google Sheets and Google Slides.
This is made possible with the help of Google Docs Offline browser extension. However, you need to be aware of one thing, the offline feature functions only on the Chrome browser.
If you are using a browser other than Google Chrome, then it’s time that you install Google Chrome browser on your system and once you have completed the installation process, then you can further sign into your dedicated Google account that can help you gain access to Google Docs.
This is a Chrome browser extension that facilitates users to access their Google Docs offline. This is an extension which can be simultaneously used across Google Slides and Sheets as well.
Important Features:
After you have completed the installation process of the Google Docs Offline extension, you can then follow the below steps to enable the offline mode of Google Docs:
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This is an easy process as well but is slightly different from the PC setup process as outlined in the below-given steps.
In the mobile version, Google productivity apps are available as individual applications. Therefore, if you need to only use Google Docs offline, then you will have to download the particular application of Google Docs.
Similarly, if you need Google Drive, Sheets or Slides in offline mode, then you will need to download the individual apps available separately for the Android or iOS platform.
Once you have installed the respective application of Google Docs, you can follow the below steps to complete the setup process of Google docs offline on your mobile:
For this purpose, you can simply try to notice whether a grey colored tick mark is visible or not (as shown in the below image) in the bottom portion of the file in your Drive.
If yes, then it will open under offline conditions. Otherwise, you need to manually turn on the “Available Offline” toggle button as described in the above steps.
In the above article, you came across the ways to save your files in Google Drive to avail them offline. Offline access to documents is very essential these days as we tend to depend on softcopies of all important documents piled up in Google Drive.
In case, we are Travelling or have intermittent internet access, then offline availability of Google Docs can save us to a great extent. You can easily edit your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides files and the edited version is synced in Google Drive when the connection to the internet is re-established.
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Thank you, Snigdha for this amazing trick. MS Office takes lots of memory on the PC when we Install It.
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