{"id":2239,"date":"2022-07-23T02:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/?page_id=2239"},"modified":"2022-07-23T05:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:31:58","slug":"google_offline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/google_offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs Offline Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover rella-no-padding rella-no-margin    content-section-69f382950bf48\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-2\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-8\">[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100px&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rO0gciXGcyw&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" ><p align=\"center\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"><b>How to Save, Open, and Create Google Files Offline<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><font size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">Also known as &#8216;Eskom\/Telkom Proofing your Laptop Workflow&#8217;<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" ><p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#000000\">If you aren&#8217;t connected to the Internet, Googles Workspace allows you to still view and edit files, including: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><b>Google Docs , <\/b><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><b>Google Sheets, <\/b><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><b>Google Slides<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#000000\">It is as simple as right clicking the file you want to save offline and selecting &#8220;Available offline.&#8221; <\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><b>However, you need to set up your account first using the steps below<\/b>.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" ><div class=\"no-margin\">\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"><b>Follow these steps:<\/b><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">You must be connected to the internet.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">You must use the <font color=\"#3366FF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/browser\/desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Chrome<\/a><\/font>\u00a0or Microsoft Edge browser.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Don&#8217;t use private browsing.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Install and turn on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/google-docs-offline\/ghbmnnjooekpmoecnnnilnnbdlolhkhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#3366FF\">Google Docs Offline Chrome extension<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Make sure you have enough available\u00a0space on your device to save your files.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">Open Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides offline:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Open Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. If on Chrome, make sure you are <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/answer\/185277\"><font color=\"#3366FF\">signed into<\/font><\/a>\u00a0your desired account.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#3366FF\">drive.google.com\/drive\/settings<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Check the box next to &#8220;Create, open, and edit your recent Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files on this device while offline.&#8221;<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">Save Google Docs, Sheets &amp; Slides for offline use:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">On your computer, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#3366FF\">drive.google.com<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\"><b>Right click<\/b> the Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file you want to save offline.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Turn on &#8220;<b>Available offline.<\/b>&#8220;<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">To save multiple files offline, press <strong>Shift<\/strong> or <strong>Command<\/strong> (Mac)\/<strong>Ctrl<\/strong> (Windows) while you click other files.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Preview offline files:<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">On your computer, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#3366FF\">drive.google.com<\/font><\/a>.<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Make sure you turn on offline access first.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">At the top right, click Ready for offline <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/IwpnsPA1LE_4FoI-7w2GxDRzvJfSAhIurUwtZVRxME_eoUliQwSaH4XWCTcRUn_vJTE=w36-h36\" alt=\"Ready for offline\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" data-mime-type=\"image\/png\" data-alt-src=\"\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/IwpnsPA1LE_4FoI-7w2GxDRzvJfSAhIurUwtZVRxME_eoUliQwSaH4XWCTcRUn_vJTE\" \/>.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Click <strong>Offline preview<\/strong>.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-2\"><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_empty_space height=\"100px\"][vc_video link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rO0gciXGcyw\"][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"]How to Save, Open, and Create Google Files Offline Also known as 'Eskom\/Telkom Proofing your Laptop Workflow' [vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"]If you aren't connected to the Internet, Googles Workspace allows you to still view and edit files, including: Google Docs , Google Sheets, Google Slides It is as simple as right clicking the file","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}