How to Open a Word Document in Google Docs?

January 11, 2022

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to open a Word Document in Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing.

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

Uploading a Word Document
Editing a Word Document

The nice thing Google relatively recently implemented is a kind of “natural” editing support for Microsoft Word format in Google Docs. We mean that unlike before, now Google Drive offers full editing possibilities for external documents, such as Microsoft Word and many more, with no need to convert the external document to the Google Docs format anymore. Now let’s upload a Word document and start editing it.

Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out how to open a Word document in Google Docs:

Uploading a Word Document

And basically, we do that either from the menu on Google Drive or a simple “drag and drop” option from a computer.

So, here on the top left, we press the “New” button. The menu unfolds, and we press on the second item. This is “File upload”

That opens the explorer, where we locate the file, double-clicking on it. And it’s getting uploaded

Here it is

Or drag and drop it from a PC which is done by just opening the explorer on a computer, locating the file and just dropping it here, waiting a bit

Here it is

Now let’s open it.

Editing a Word Document

So, the Word file, double-clicking on it and waiting a bit

And got it open in a new tab in the browser

Here on top, next to its name, you can see that the file format is Microsoft Docx, but that doesn’t limit our editing possibilities anymore. You have all your common Google Docs tools available

NB! We can enter something, delete it, format it, make it bold, change its font, etc. Now you can freely edit Microsoft Word like it’s a common Google Doc, full support. This is incredible since earlier you could just watch it, but to edit it, you would have had to convert it to the Google Doc format. That would have looked like this:

You would have had to go to “File” on the toolbar and press “Save as Google Docs”

Wait a bit, and it will create a copy in Google Docs format (on top, next to the name of the document, there won`t be written . DOCX format)

Now you can edit it.

We hope this tutorial on how to open a Word document in Google Docs will be helpful for you. Good luck!

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