This version will use the files that were synced for offline use. Now when you go offline and try to open Google Docs, it will instead load a special offline version. Click the “Add Extension” button to complete the process. You can see by the help text that this is when the previously-mentioned extension is added.Ĭhrome will alert you that the extension is requesting to be installed. In this window locate the Offline option and tick the box. You can also access it by clicking this link if you’re already logged into Google.Ī new window will appear. You can do this by going to Google Drive and clicking the cog at the top right, then Settings. To use Google Docs offline, you need to access the Google Drive settings in Chrome. If these restrictions are too much, you can check the “Alternate Options” section below to see other methods available. Thirdly, you need to be online to set these options up, so you need to do this before you want to use Google Docs offline. Secondly, all your documents in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings will be available offline, but your uploaded files in your Drive won’t be. First, because it installs a Chrome extension to activate the offline features, this can’t be done in any browser other than Chrome. Before we head into how to do this, there are a few things you need to take note of.

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