Click the second blue button in the window and you will be taken to the Chrome Web store to install the Drive Web app.Īfter installing the Web app, return to your Drive home page and you'll see a notification pointing to the gear icon that informs you that some of your recent files are being synced and how to view them. Click the Enable offline Docs button and then for Step 2, you will need to install the Drive Web app for Chrome. A window will pop up with a two-step setup process. To enable offline access, go to your Google Drive page and click the gear icon in the upper-right corner and select Set up Google Docs offline. To begin, Google Docs offline is available only in Google's own Chrome browser.

(For some reason, Google is putting this offline access under the old Docs banner.) Here's how to start using Google Docs offline. And when you open that same document when you are back online, the changes you made while offline are there.

You can now edit documents you have stored on Google Drive (or Docs, if you haven't moved over to the new interface) during those moments - while sitting on an airplane or in a cabin in the woods or in a Wi-Fi-free coffee shop - when you are not connected to the Internet. Google has now made its Drive service more than an online storage product and productivity suite.

Open google drive docs offline