{"id":379908,"date":"2020-12-11T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=379908"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:00:52","slug":"you-can-now-edit-word-documents-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/379908-you-can-now-edit-word-documents-in-gmail.html","title":{"rendered":"You can now edit Word documents in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail users will now be able to edit Microsoft Office documents directly through the popular email service, the company announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2020\/12\/one-click-open-gmail-m.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, these documents had to be imported to the user&#8217;s Google Drive before they could be edited, and they could otherwise only be previewed within Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, these documents will be editable in a similar way to a Google Doc, but once the editing process is done, they will remain in their original file format.<\/p>\n<p>The user can then choose to respond to the email with the edited document without having to download it and then reattach it.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its drive towards greater integration with Office documents, Google recently launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuite.google.com\/marketplace\/app\/macro_converter\/383201976440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Macro Converter<\/strong><\/a> app on the Google Workspace Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>This add-on makes it easier to convert excel files with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code into Google Sheets files and Apps Scripts.<\/p>\n<p>It determines whether your Excel files are compatible with Google Docs formats and if so, it will help you to convert them.<\/p>\n<p>Macro Converter is therefore a valuable app for accessing data-rich files across office suite ecosystems.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Google Workspace<\/h3>\n<p>Google is placing a priority on optimising its document creation and editing suite, which was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/370347-g-suite-renamed-to-google-workspace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>renamed<\/strong><\/a> from G-Suite to Google Workspace.<\/p>\n<p>Google Workspace encompasses Gmail, Docs, Meet, Sheets, and Calendar, and Google has been implementing several new features over the past few months to improve this suite.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to dynamically create ad collaborate on documents while hosting guests in a Google Chat room<\/li>\n<li>Google Meet picture-in-picture support for Google Docs<\/li>\n<li>The ability to preview Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides without opening a new tab<\/li>\n<li>Smart tagging by using the &#8216;@&#8217; sign before mentioning someone&#8217;s name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/379506-the-truth-about-mobile-data-prices-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The truth about mobile data prices in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail users will now be able to edit Microsoft Office documents directly from the email attachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":257799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[407,167,4552,6599],"class_list":["post-379908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-docs","tag-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379908"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379940,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379908\/revisions\/379940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}