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• #Uploading word to google docs mac how to

Makes it easy for me to access the folders and files in my own Google Drive, but that’s not what we want. 🙂Ĭlick to open up the file picker and you’ll see this: Yes, it’s called the “ file picker“, which sounds more like a country song than a software feature. Nice, but where’s the document that’s on my Desktop? How do I upload it? No worries, that feature is hidden in the folder icon on the right: When I do that, I’m shown recent documents I’ve created or were shared with me: Turns out you can upload and open the file in a single step, so let’s start out by simply going to to jump straight to Google Docs.

#Uploading word to google docs mac how to

Then once you’re done, how do you save the new marked up version back to your desktop, if so desired? Let’s start with the first question… HOW TO OPEN A DESKTOP WORD FILE IN GOOGLE DOCS The question, then, is how do you get the document from the Desktop on your PC to Google Drive so that you can see it and open it in Google Docs. DOCX formats too, making for even more interoperability.

In other words, if you get a Word document, you can open it in just about any editor! Not only that, but all of these programs listed can save in Microsoft Word’s. But it turns out that is most definitely not true and every one of the major editing suites, from OpenOffice to Apple Pages, has a surprisingly high level of interoperability. Word files can only be edited in Word, Google Docs only creates Doc files, etc. It’s easy to fall into thinking that each of the major word processing systems is a self-contained universe.