Mark PDFs, images, and Microsoft Office files as offline in Drive, launching to beta
Monday, June 24, 2019
To learn more about the beta and to apply, see here.
- Admins:
- To apply to this beta, you must enable Drive File Stream use and installation for your domain, and enable offline for the domain and devices.
- Apply to join the beta here.
- Note: Admins who opted into the Alpha for offline for Docs, Sheets, and Slides will automatically be whitelisted for this beta.
- End users:
- First, enable offline from within the Drive or Docs settings.
- Next, sign into Chrome with the account associated with the whitelisted Google Group and access Drive File Stream.
- To mark the non-Google files as available offline, right click on a file and select “Make available offline.” You can use the offline preview feature as well.
Additionally, users can also right click and open any non-Google files using native applications. By doing so, you can make an Office file available offline and—while offline—open that file using the native Microsoft Office application.
- Apply for the Google Drive Offline for Binary Content beta
- Set up offline access to Docs editors
- Use Google Drive files offline
- Viewing and opening files in Google Drive
- Available to all G Suite editions
On/off by default?
- Once accepted into the beta, this feature is ON by default when:
- Offline is enabled for the domain.
- Users have Drive File Stream installed and offline is enabled in Google Drive or Google Docs settings.