Someone send you a Give-and-take document, only you don't take Word? Giving upwards on Word and making the change to Google Docs? No problem; Google Docs lets y'all easily import Word documents. And while it might not support some of the more advanced features and formatting of some Discussion documents, it works pretty well.

How to Import a Give-and-take Document into Google Docs

To view a Word document on Google Docs, you must first upload the file to your Google Drive. Open up Google Drive, click "New," so click "File Upload" to become started.

Navigate to your file(due south) and then click "Open."

Alternatively, you can drag and driblet a file from your reckoner directly into the spider web browser for an like shooting fish in a barrel upload.

Once your file uploads, right-click it, point to "Open up With" on the context menu, and so select "Google Docs."

Google and so converts your Word document into a Google Docs file.

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Later you've finished editing your file, y'all tin can either share information technology with others or download and consign your certificate back into a Microsoft Word format past going to File > Download Every bit and then clicking the "Microsoft Word" pick.

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If you'd rather download your certificate in PDF, ODT, TXT, or other formats, y'all can do that too.

The file is then downloaded to the browser's default download folder.

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