GWOffice: how to integrate Google Drive in Ubuntu

Long gone are the days when Windows was unopposed by the operating system and Microsoft Office - the only sane office suite. Today, the user can choose the most suitable for a system across multiple platforms, and a list of programs for office work expanded significantly. Along with such beautiful and well-known alternatives like OpenOffice and LibreOffice, you can not forget about the online office editors, the most popular among them is undoubtedly, the Google Docs. Recently reborn in google Drive and getting support off-line mode, the online office suite was just the perfect product to work on a document in Windows. However, in Linux due to the program GWOffice you can easily establish a comfortable work with Google Docs documents.

GWOffice - a special program designed to integrate the possibilities of Google Docs online office suite in the Ubuntu family of operating systems. In fact, as a result you get a full table editor, presentations and text documents with the ability to view and edit a file from your online account or LAN. In this case, it is possible to work off-line and synchronize changes.

Appearance GWOffice boasts a complete similarity with the usual desktop applications with preserving all familiar to you for the online operation of controls and functions. Thus, if you use Google Docs web version, you will instantly feel at home. In addition to the advantages of the program include a good integration with Unity shell, resulting in available context menu commands for the application buttons, display pop-up notifications, and work with HUD.

To install GWOffice run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: tombeckmann / ppa. sudo apt-get update. sudo apt-get install gwoffice

GWOffice It is still a very young project, but it is quite stable and functional. It allows you to combine in a single program all the advantages of a normal application and online service is by far one of the best ways to work with office documents in Ubuntu.

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