Microsoft Office on Windows gained even closer integration with Google Drive this week. Google released a plugin for Office which adds Google Drive as a quick location to open or save documents. You’ll notice is on the Open and Save options under the File tab. There is also a Google Drive tab that includes options:
- Save to Drive
- Open
- Share
- Save
- Rename
- Move
- Settings
You can see the announcement from the Google Drive blog and download the Drive for Office plugin from a Google Tools page.
Several commenters are complaining that the plugin does not work for Office 2016. This is fairly understandable as Office 2016 is still in preview. We will have to keep an eye out for if Google will update the plugin to work with Office 2016 on Windows or bring it to Office 2016 for Mac.