How to enable .docx creation in the Google Docs app

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Google Docs is simply a large app for creating documents connected the go. Make it adjacent much usable by adding the quality to make .docx files. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Did you cognize that you tin present make .docx files straight from wrong the Google Docs app? With this new(ish) diagnostic you nary longer person to make Google Docs documents and past export them arsenic Word Documents to stock them with others. Although I similar utilizing the Google default (because astir of my clients besides enactment wrong the Google landscape), I bash person immoderate clients that necessitate I nonstop them documents successful the .docx format.

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Typically, I don't bash overmuch enactment connected mobile devices. I walk the immense bulk of my clip connected a desktop, utilizing the web-based mentation of the Google productivity suite. However, determination has been an juncture oregon 2 erstwhile I've needed to make a papers portion connected the go, and having the quality to bash truthful without taking the other steps is simply a existent time-saver.

So, however bash you marque it imaginable to make .docx files successful the Google Docs app? It's incredibly simple. Let maine amusement you.

What you'll need

The lone happening you'll request to marque this enactment is simply a Google relationship and the Google Docs app connected your mobile instrumentality of prime (download Google Docs for Android oregon iOS). You bash person to instal Google Docs for this to enactment (and due to the fact that it's not installed by default connected astir devices).

That's each you need. Let's alteration this feature.

How to alteration .docx creation

Don't blink, due to the fact that this is going to hap each excessively fast. If you unfastened the Google Docs app, pat the New fastener (+ fastener astatine the bottommost close corner). In the resulting popup paper (Figure A), you'll spot that you lone person 2 choices: Choose Template and New Document).

Figure A

To alteration this feature, pat the paper fastener successful the precocious near country (three horizontal lines). From the resulting sidebar (Figure B), pat Settings.

Figure B

In the Settings model (Figure C), you'll spot the introduction for Create Word Files.

Figure C

Tap the On/Off slider until it's successful the On position. Once you've done this, backmost retired of Settings and past pat the New fastener again. You should present spot an enactment for New Word File (Figure D).

Figure D

And that's each determination is to adding .docx instauration successful the Google Docs app. When you make a caller Word record from wrong the app, it volition automatically prevention with the .docx extension, truthful you nary longer person to export your files to the Microsoft format truthful galore use.

Do remember, however, that erstwhile utilizing the mobile mentation of Google Docs you bash person to determine if you privation to prevention the record to section retention oregon Google Drive (Figure E).

Figure E

If you program to stock the record immediately, prevention it locally. If you program to enactment with the papers from the web-based mentation of Google Docs/Drive oregon request to collaborate, prevention it to Google Drive.

Congratulations, you've conscionable made the mobile mentation of Google Docs a spot much efficient.

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