Google Drive Now Lets You Comment and Collaborate on Microsoft Office Files Without Conversion

When information technology comes to productivity, even the best cloud storage services skew towards falling short. However, Google Bulldoze is an outlier in this regard, and it is known for its arsenal of features that assist you stay on top of your game. Now, the company has added a new feature which allows you to comment and collaborate on Microsoft Part, PDF, and image files and more right from Google Drive.

In case you didn't know, Google didn't allow the users to leave a comment on files from Microsoft Discussion, Excel, unless you converted them to the Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide format. However now, Google has made it a lot easier. For example, if you lot receive a Microsoft Office file like a Discussion document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation from your colleague, you lot can open it in Bulldoze and add together your feedback via the preview pane.

The alter is aimed at increasing Drive's interoperability with dissimilar file types in apply and it doesn't crave any other tools to complete the chore as well. Apparently, the company has been testing the feature for the by few months. Stéphane Donzé, CEO, and founder of AODocs said, "We frequently utilize the comments feature in Google Docs and Slides when preparing specification documents, reviewing project proposals and creating marketing materials. With commenting in Drive Preview feature, we can at present extend the same collaboration, review and validation processes to Microsoft Office Applications, images and PDFs."

The update is just another example of interoperability between G Suite and Microsoft Office. You tin also use a Bulldoze plug-in for Outlook to make it easier to add or save Bulldoze files from an Outlook email.

Although Google is trying to find means to make it easier for the users to work with Word documents, etc. Microsoft, on the other hand, wants to lure Google Drive users to its own deject service. Yesterday, the company announced a new offer nether which Dropbox, Box and Google Drive users tin can get free OneDrive subscription.