

Google Docs/Drive natively provides offline editing for Docs/Sheets/Slides and offline editing for Word/Excel/PowerPoint files - no extension is required. What may be more informative for us to help you is if you can identify the actual issues you are facing, as the ones you have mentioned already are not issues if you fully convert to Google Docs.ġ- there is no google docs extension so you can't download the files to ur computer, you have to download them as xlsx then when you need to work on them again you have to upload them to the drive to be able to convert them to google sheet and use all edit options. If you don't want to do that then you don't want to fully convert to Google Docs.

Your thinking is the wrong way round: if you want to fully convert to using Google Docs then you need to stop thinking of trying to use Word/Excel on your desktop and start using Google Docs/Sheets in the cloud.

If you want to see live demonstrations on how other educators use Google Apps and technology to enhance student learning and increase your productivity, join a Google in Education Summit by AppsEvents and learn new knowledge you can implement Monday! Visit for a complete list of summits.Are thrown in the middle and can't fully convert to google docs. export/pptx (to download as PowerPoint) export/pdf (to download as PDF)ĭo you think bypassing Google Drive Viewer is helpful? Let us know in the comments section below. export?format=xlsx (to download as an Excel file) export?format=pdf (to download as PDF) Google doc format) export?format=pdf (to download as PDF) I have created a reference table below for your convenience, but you can also take a look at Amit’s original post here. This trick also works for Docs, Sheets, and Presentations, but with a different URL pattern. Note that the above URL pattern is for creating direct links to file formats with no Google Drive equivalent such as image and audio files. As you can see, you only need to note of the FILE_ID.
