6. What Must You Download To Enable Offline Editing In Google Docs

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Only one account for each browser profile can have offline enabled. If you want to enable multiple accounts for offline access, create them on separate browser profiles. Learn how to add a new profile, then enable offline for one account in each profile.

6. what must you download to enable offline editing in google docs

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Now that you got that rant out of your system, you might want to look at this extension so you can edit your docs offline -docs-offline/ghbmnnjooekpmoecnnnilnnbdlolhkhi and more instructions here: =en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

After reading the whole discussion, I must say I understand CK's point of view, as I have many similar thoughts myself. I also agree with Stephen that Google and Microsoft have different approaches, specially regarding the cloud. What I know for sure is that most companies have their own vision and mentality and they are stuck with it, I bet most feature requests are simply ignored. Personally I believe that Google doesn't need to abandon its cloud-centric focus to add a few new features which would certainly attract current Microsoft users. I'm sure it's technically possible, Google just doesn't want to do it. Period. I found out that by using Google Drive I can partially solve this by simply clicking the Google docs files (whether they're shortcuts or not) and I can open them instantly from Windows desktop, (or even in a dedicated window, by ''installing" the corresponding app from Chrome), without the need to open Google Drive every time:

When you are logged into your account and have an internet connection, you will need to enable the offline editing function in your Google Drive. Open your Google Drive using the Google Chrome browser. Make sure that you are not using the private mode, since the option is not available in that configuration.

Sometimes you may need to be able to edit a document offline (when you don't have a connection to the Internet). In some cases having offline editing enabled can cause issues loading or using your Google Sheets connected to Tiller Money Feeds.

I have ticked the use offline options in the google web apps and have the google docs offline extension installed (it came pre installed as far as I can tell), so thought that should be enough. However if I turn WiFi off and click on the google docs icon it just opens a chrome tab saying loading and nothing happens, no matter how long I leave it.

Edit 2 (how i fixed it): Ok so I installed the android apps for docs and sheets, once I did that I was able to use the both the android app and web app versions offline. Out of interest I then uninstalled the android versions (to see if the web apps would stop working) and the web apps still worked offline. Not sure why this fixed it but it seems to have done the trick.

Offline access is enabled by default for all organisations, whether they have a business, education, government or non-profit licence, but you can switch it on and off through the Google Workspace Admin Console. Furthermore, if you only want some users or devices to be able to work online, you can use policies to control which devices are allowed to turn on offline working.

Google Docs is a web-based word processor that you use on your Chromebook, which means that you must have an Internet connection to access all of its features. However, an offline version of Docs is available in the event you find yourself without a connection to the Internet.

IMPORTANT Your minimum version of Box Drive must be 2.0. You can get the latest version of Box Drive here. If you do not see the mark for offline feature, quit Box Drive and re-start it, or contact your enterprise admin.

Box uploads changes as they're saved. However, collaborators cannot see each others' revisions in real-time -- that is, not until after each of you have saved and exited the file and Box Drive syncs all changes. This is true regardless of whether you are working while connected or offline, However, in this case the possibility exists for two collaborators to save conflicting changes on the same file. By way of illustration: if you go back online first, Box uploads and saves your revised file as a new version. When your collaborator goes back online, Box uploads their revised file, but saves it as a separate version. If necessary, you both must then decide which revision to keep and which to discard.

Accessing Box Drive from different machines?
You can make content available offline on a per machine basis. For example, if you're using Box Drive on your work computer as well as your home computer, you can have different content made available offline on each computer. This enables you to tailor to your need the set of content you make available offline for each device.

You must download the Google Docs Workspace extension to use Google Drive offline sync on Windows and Mac. The procedure is easy-peasy. You need an internet connection to set up offline sync. You will find an error if you try to work offline without sync.

It will do the task for you if you want to save your offline changes. However, if you wish to download your previously GDrive files to the computer, you must download Backup and Sync for Drive and set it up.