Create a new Google Docs files from the Explorer menu

In his article, DocsPal - universal converter and viewer files Dmitry Gorchakov shared supervision of personal preference trends Google Docs Web service to Microsoft Office or OpenOffice. Surely such a choice between web services and desktop applications do many other people. Indeed, sometimes much easier to create a file with a spreadsheet or text in Google Docs, rather than taking care of the presence of the computer installed license or a free text editor, as well as to deal with the backup storage and the creation of important documents. Today we tell about a simple function that allows you to create any document to Google Docs via the Explorer context menu.

To create a conductor additional menu items, do the following. The first - copy in the Windows folder are several image files - future icon for the shortcut menu - and file googledocsrunner.exe. Second - run AddGoogleDocsToNewMenu.reg file to modify the registry. At this all ends. You now have in their hands a tool to speed up office work.

This trick has been tested on Windows XP and the browser Google Chrome. Safari, by the way, gave a dialog box (error: failed attempt to launch program or document), Although then performs the requested operation on the creation of a particular type of document.

The installation package from the How-to-Geek

According to the materials of the blog How-to-Geek