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Google Drive (renamed to Google One now) allows you to store files, images or videos online, and keep them synced with all of your devices. Access them anywhere and share with others through network easily. Additional to sharing and storage, Google Drive (via Google Docs) enables you to edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more. But when you open the Microsoft Word files in Google Drive, you can only view the file, can’t edit it, or edit as a Google Doc file.
Office 365, kind of Microsoft cloud storage, is the online version of Microsoft's suite of office products in the cloud. It not only provides all the standard office products like Excel, Outlook, Word, SharePoint and more, but also available from any internet enabled computer. Just as its name show: access to your Office from anywhere and anytime all year-round. Office 365 is designed to seamlessly work with Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Storage service. So when you click on Open or Save As you get to see a nice logo for OneDrive and access the Cloud Storage directly. But when you go to Add a Place you can only find Microsoft Services and not other cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox.
Is there any way to add it yourself? Yes, this article will show you some methods.
Microsoft did release instructions on how to integrate any cloud storage service into Office 365. It would guide you to register a cloud storage service on a user’s client machine. The cloud storage service is responsible for registering itself on the user's client machine through its Setup program. The registration consists of setting some registry keys to provide Office 365 with some details about the cloud storage service.
This way would require you have some professional computer knowledge, if you are so technically inclined feel free to read all about it here.
You can install the Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office. The Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft® Office allows users working in Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook® to open documents directly from Google Drive, and save to Google Drive, without leaving their Office programs. You can also use Office 365 if you subscribe and install it on your computer.
Note: The plug-in does not work with Office for Mac.
Since Office 365 is seamlessly work with OneDrive Cloud Storage service, you can move or sync files from Google Drive to OneDrive. Then you can access to OneDrive directly through Office 365. You may think about this as download the files from Google Drive to local device and then upload it to OneDrive, and then it will be troublesome and cost much time, and it is especially not practical when you need switch between them frequently.
Don’t be disappointed, here is a more direct way to add Google Drive to Office 365 for good. We recommend a third party could file manager – MultCloud. Not only for Google Drive and OneDrive, it support almost all popular cloud storage service, such as Dropbox, Flickr, Amazon Cloud Drive, OneDrive for Business, G Suite, FTP, Box, MySQL, MEGA , SugarSync etc. The Following is step by step guide.
Tips:Besides Cloud Transfer, you can also use MultCloud's Cloud Sync service to sync Google Drive and OneDrive directly. You can click on Options to setting the ways to synchronize clouds. There are 8 sync ways in all.
In short, MultCloud offers an easy and direct way to add Google Drive to Office 365. You can reply on it to integrate your Google Drive with OneDrive, like sync Google Drive with OneDrive free, copy Google Drive to OneDrive etc. Multcloud can do both one-way and two-way sync between any two of your cloud accounts. What’s more, your data is confidential because we use 256-bit AES encryption for SSL. It’s 100% safe for you to use the service of MultCloud.
To add access to files in your Google Drive when using MS Office 2010, 2013, or 2016 on a Windows computer, you can use a plug-in.
First, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/driveforoffice and download the plug in and and run it. After it finishes, running, click Get Started, then put in your Google address (like tiger@g.clemson.edu - or if you prefer any gmail address). Click Next, enter your Google password and click Next. You will be asked for a type of verification. Select the one you prefer and complete it. When it is finished, you will click Done. Restart your computer.
Now if you open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint 2016, you will have the option to open a file from Google Drive. Or you may save any open file to Google Drive. If you select Open, you will see Google Drive as a location. You will may need to log in to Google Drive with your user name and password the first time you try this.
You will also see a new tab for Google Drive in the ribbon. You may also use this to save or open MS Office files to Google Drive.
Additionally, this adds a feature to MS Outlook 2016 'Insert files using Drive' that allows you to select a file from Google Drive to embed as a link or add as a file attachment to the current message. There is also a Google Drive ribbon when composing new messages.
Note: from inside Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, if you open a file that is in MS Office format (.docx, .xlsx, or .pptx), it will open directly in the desktop application. But if you try to open a file in Google Format (Docs, Sheets, or Slides), it will open the file in the browser for editing.
If you have more questions about this, email: ITHELP@clemson.edu or call 864-656-1344.