I have Google Drive installed. I'd like to open local Office files inside Google Drive directly in Google Drive, that would save me an expensive subscription to Microsoft 365 Office suit. I don't want to do this from the browser, rather from the regular Windows 11 File explorer. Hence, how to do that, I could not find an answer online.
- Files are stored/synced/streamed using Google Drive on my computer - meaning there is a corresponding file saved in the cloud (using Google Drive)
- I want to open these files ending with docx or xlsx using the appropriate Google Drive programme online. Not as a copy, but just as a synced files as they are.
Any help appreciated.
EDIT: on Google I searched for ways to open files locally, but all I could find were ways to open files local files from within Google Drive (web-based) by uploading them. I found no way to just double-click on a docx file on my computer (in a Drive folder) and that it opens in the browser as a Google Docs rendered file.