Automatically convert Microsoft Office Documents into Google Documents

In order to make your life a little easier there's a simple tweak which you can use to automatically convert your Microsoft Documents into Google Docs.  This is very handy feature for importing Excel files and PowerPoint files so you can use them directly in your presentation without much additional effort.

Link to Google Drive on Google's Homepage 

First you will want to go to your Google Drive account.  You can access it by going google.com and clicking on the link labeled Drive at the top.  Please note this may show as Documents if you have not upgraded to Google Drive yet or if you are not currently logged in to your Google Account.  

Direct web address to access Google Drive

You can also access the account directly by going to https://drive.google.com

Once there all you will need to do is to select the settings icon in the top right hand corner of Google Drive (indicated by a gear icon) and then go down to the upload settings.  There find the option "Convert uploaded files to Google Docs format" and select that option.  You can make sure the option has been enabled by finding the check mark next to it to indicate that this feature is currently active.

Please note that if you do import a PowerPoint Presentation any transitions you have used will be lost. You can however add these again by opening the file in Google Presentation and apply transitions between the slides.

Now in the future if you upload for example an Excel spreadsheet it will automatically be converted to a Google Spreadsheet which is now correctly formatted to be used in your presentation. Now all you have to do is enable the appropriate sharing settings and insert the link in your presentation.  This is very useful as it prevents you from having to copy and paste from Microsoft Office Documents into the Google Documents and allows you to easily use materials that have already been prepared in Microsoft Office.

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