{"id":302596,"date":"2019-04-11T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=302596"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:38:43","slug":"you-can-now-edit-microsoft-office-files-in-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302596-you-can-now-edit-microsoft-office-files-in-google-docs.html","title":{"rendered":"You can now edit Microsoft Office files in Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added support for editing Microsoft Office files directly within its suite of cloud-based apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2019\/04\/11\/you-can-now-directly-edit-microsoft-office-files-with-google-docs-sheets-and-slides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TheNextWeb<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>While Google Docs users were previously relegated to installing a plugin or converting Office files to edit them without limitations, users can now simply open Office files and edit them without any restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>All Google Docs features &#8211; including multi-user collaboration &#8211; will be available when editing Microsoft Office files.<\/p>\n<p>Google Docs supports the .doc, .docx, and .dot file formats for Microsoft Word; .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, and .xlt for Excel; and .ppt, .pptx, .pps, and .pot for PowerPoint.<\/p>\n<p>This feature will begin rolling out to a limited number of Google Docs users this month, and this rollout will be extended to more users from May 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/302470-google-turns-android-smartphones-into-account-security-keys.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google turns Android smartphones into account security keys<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added support for editing Microsoft Office files directly within its suite of cloud-based apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":212620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47596,167,6599],"class_list":["post-302596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-docs","tag-google","tag-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302600,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596\/revisions\/302600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}