How To Use Google Docs With Outlook

Whether you are using outlook on the web or our mobile apps your google drive files are just a click away.

How to use google docs with outlook. First begin a new message and then click or tap the attachment icon. Creating a new google docs document from microsoft outlook creating a new document is also easy just click the new button and select the type of document you want to create. Zapier s automation tools make it easy to connect google docs and microsoft outlook. Now all of your google docs will show up in the sidebar. Once added your google drive appears as a source when attaching files.

Double click any file to open it in outlook. You may have to sign in to google docs the first time you open a document. To send a google doc via e mail you just choose the file from the harmony sidebar drag it into your message window and harmony creates a link to the google doc online instead of attaching it to. You can drag n drop files from the desktop into outlook sidebar and they ll immediately get uploaded to your google docs account. Enter your google account info and click sign in.

A common misperception that people often have is that they need a gmail account to be able to use google drive that is google documents spreadsheets etc. Next select google drive and enter your account credentials. You can create a google account that is linked with any existing email account which might be a gmail account but could be your current work email. Upload download google documents using outlook. In other words a google account is different from a google gmail account.

Set up the google docs trigger and make magic happen automatically in microsoft outlook.