Google Drive now supported in Word for iPad?

Anonymous
2015-02-24T08:32:55+00:00

So Word for iPad's latest update allows integration with Google Drive, but I can't get it to work.

I checked in 'Add a place' - I can select OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox or Sharepoint, but no sign of (Google) Drive.

Under ". . . more" , and "Locations" there's a slide button to select Google Drive, but I can't see any effect.  Even with this switched on, Drive doesn't appear under any of the menus.

Is this a bug?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-25T20:09:26+00:00

    TBH, getting an Office file opened from Google Drive into Office iOS apps is easy:

    Google Drive/folder/file/tap/open in, etc - voila!

    Not really that much different from opening a file from any directory/folder on a PC/Mac. However, getting a file from 0ffice onto Google Drive is another issue.

    Odd, if Android/iOS wars are so pertinent to this issue, that so many other iOS apps allow direct export to Google Drive??? In fact, this is precisely why Myself, 100 colleagues and 1250 students at my school, are currently using Pages, Keynote and Numbers, as productivity apps on iOS, when we'd much rather use Office! Clearly an omission on the part of Google/Alphabet, or whatever they're called these days. Perhaps their disintegration into smaller, more focussed companies, will preclude such oversights in future. 😆

    Anyhow, accepting that this is an unresolvable issue from the Google end, perhaps MS could take a look at allowing Google Drive to import files from OneDrive for Business (works great in OneDrive, so I'm guessing this is problem is with SharePoint, i.e. at MS's end). At least then my colleagues, students and I could use this back door to get Office files where we actually want them!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-01T18:39:56+00:00

    New Google drive for IOS now allows other iOS apps (including office)  to save in Google Drive.

    Tested and functional.

    so it was Google lagging ... Not Microsoft. 

    :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-02T04:29:16+00:00

    I tried opening and editing files from Google drive but it said I needed an office 365 account. Is this the case for anybody else?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-06T04:09:44+00:00

    I tried opening and editing files from Google drive but it said I needed an office 365 account. Is this the case for anybody else?

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