Select File Upload and then select the document, spreadsheet, or presentation that you want to open. Open Google Drive and click the New button on the left. For many files, Google Drive lets you preview them and open them in other web apps, including one of the many Google apps. Google Drive allows you to upload any and all types of files. The trick to opening Microsoft office files in Google Docs is in Google Drive. For Excel files, you may not be able to execute a function if Google Sheets doesn’t support it.
The formatting, for the most part, will remain as it is though for presentations, you might lose some audio or video files. To be clear, you will open a Microsoft Word document in Google Docs, an Excel sheet in Google Sheets, and a PowerPoint presentation in Slides. Here’s how you can open Microsoft Office files in Google Docs. Google Doc can open most other document file formats for editing.
Google Docs and Google’s entire productivity suite is a good example of this. That said, web apps aren’t useless and are in fact very capable.
Even through browsers continue to improve with each version, they still can’t run desktop apps. This is because they rely on your browser and its capabilities to work. Web apps don’t really compare to desktop apps when it comes to features.
