Creating a keyboard shortcut that opens your browser to the Google Docs upload option won't save you a lot of time, but you'll more easily transmit files as e-mail attachments.

Instead of downloading that attached Word document, especially if it's "a keeper", you should try opening it with the brand new Gmail feature available today. It lets you import any attached ...

If you can't open Google Docs on your computer or if Google Docs is not working correctly, first check if you have the required permissions to open the document.

Google Docs is compatible with Microsoft Office documents. If you want to open an Office document in Google Docs through the Chrome browser, use the suite's Import utility.

From here, click File > Export to Google Spreadsheet. Google Docs will convert the CSV back into a spreadsheet and you'll be able to open it and work on it in no time.

Creating a new file, whether Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Forms, in Chrome is easy, if you know the proper URL shortcuts. Let's dig into those.

Google Doc Import XML If you try to open an XML document in Google Drive or Google Docs, you'll notice that it opens by default in a notepad-like format.

Firefox users now can with a small extension called " Open in Google Docs." Once installed it will open up any file type that Google accepts in--you guessed it--Google Docs.

A new Google Docs trick lets you quickly open a new document right in your browser.

One way to compare two Google Docs documents is to open them in two separate browser windows, place them side-by-side, and sift through them to find the differences. However, as you can imagine ...