How to convert documents in Google Drive

Google Drive as infrastructure expands rapidly, the news about this service are almost continuous stream. Just recently we met with a few additionsExtending the functionality of Google Cloud Storage, a little earlier learned how c work documents without a network connectionAnd now look at an easy way to convert them (documents) in the format you need.

In general, Google Drive cloud storage along with an office suite Google Docs form a very self-sufficient bunch, able to cope with most of the typical office tasks. But sometimes, especially when interacting with colleagues who use different antiquated software solutions like Microsoft Office, you may experience some problems. For example, in accounting you will be required to bill only in the csv, and your colleague's computer understands nothing except the canonical doc.

In this case, the aid will come handy app for Google Drive called Drive Converter. C it you can directly in the cloud disk to convert to the desired format for office documents, images and audio files.

To use this add-on, click on it page in the Chrome Web Store and click establish. Since DriveConverter works in Google Drive, but not in your browser, you can do it in any Web browser. After that go to your cloud storage and note, for example, there is stored file in DOC format. In the file open menu new item DriveConverter.

With it, you send the selected file to the online converter, where just choose a new format, mark additional options if they are available, and click on the button Convert. After the operation you can directly download the results to your computer or save it to Google Drive.

Currently DriveConverter supports the following conversion:

documentation

• of DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT
• in PDF, XML, RTF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, TXT

tables

• from XLX, XLSX
• in XLSX, CSV, PDF, TXT, HTML

Images

• in PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF
• in PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF

audio

• of MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG
• in MP3, M4A, MP4, WAV, FLAC, OGG

We hope that the convenient ability to convert files to different formats provided by the addition of DriveConverter, will be for you one more reason to use Google Docs office suite.