Google Introduces Drive Plugin for Microsoft Office

Google released an Office plug-in Tuesday that allows a document, presentation or sheet to be uploaded directly from Microsoft’s office suite to the Drive storage service. For now, the plug-in only works with Office versions for Windows.

Google’s plugin also gives Office the ability to open files stored on Drive in the office suite. All changes are then automatically reflected in the online file. Google reports this in a blog post on Tuesday.

Google says that the plug-in is aimed at teams that have to work together on a project. The technology giant probably wants to make its storage service more attractive to companies and educational institutions. The plug-in is available immediately for Windows. It is not yet known if and when a variant for the Office version for the Mac will be released.

The plug-in from Google is not the only way to directly save Office files online. Manufacturer Microsoft has been doing this for some time with its OneDrive service. In Office 2013, documents can already be saved directly in OneDrive and in the latest version, Office 2016, this will even happen by default.