Today, Google officially made the Cloud Connect plugin for Microsoft Office available to everyone. In November, it was only available to a certain number of users. Now, everyone can collaborate with other people much more easily. The Google Cloud Connect plugin for Microsoft is now live and you can easily download it here!
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Cloud Connect is a free plug-in from Google that adds a new toolbar to the top of the Office application and allows you to share and collaborate on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with anyone you want. Simply send an email with the unique link address assigned to the file, which can be accessed from anywhere. Then the recipient can simply click the link and open the Office document in Google Docs. As you can see, you don't even need Microsoft Office to collaborate. Then the person can also download the file and open it with the appropriate Office application.
The benefits of Cloud Connect are great, for example: When collaborating, you don't have to worry about overlapping edits because all changes are preserved. The only thing you need to do in such a case is to select which change you want to keep in that particular section of the document. Documents you change are automatically synced to the cloud, they are always backed up and you can always go back to the previous version. You can also work offline and Cloud Connect will automatically sync the file the next time an internet connection is available. Another very handy feature is that if you want to show someone a document but don't want that person to edit the file, you can easily send a view-only link.
The bottom line is that with Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, you get a lot of new features, become more productive, no longer have to send attachments back and forth or spend time keeping track of the latest document version, no need to update your current software configuration, and best of all, no need to spend money on new software. Cloud Connect works with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010.
