john sasso asks:
When I try to open an Office document (when using Chrome/Gmail) I only see the option to view or download. I want to be able to open it in Office first without downloading the file. I used to do this in Outlook so why can’t I now?
Browser: Chrome 21
System: Windows 7
Tagged: email tips, gmail, microsoft office, open file, save file
System: Windows 7
Tagged: email tips, gmail, microsoft office, open file, save file
9 Answers -
ferdinan Sitohang
August 8, 2012You can do it by choose download, after that it will ask you whether to save it first or open with a program. Just choose open with a program and choose any office program, it will display as you wish, and not store directly to your documents folder.
Suman Acharya
August 8, 2012view as HTML
Scan and download
these two are options. view is the option i choose to read without download.
these two option are just under the attachment file. ferdinan’s solution may work better for you.
August 8, 2012Âdil Farôôq
August 8, 2012Select download it will give you an option to open it using office program.
Min Shum
August 8, 2012Use “View in Google Docs”. Any office document sent as an attachment to your email can be viewed directly from the Cloud without having to save it to your PC.
The document, however, will be saved to your recent document list on your Google Docs account
EL
August 8, 2012You have to download it. You can open it without downloading it in Outlook because when Outlook pulls in messages, it downloads the attachments automatically.
Once you click download in Gmail, you can open it in Office.
Christopher Harlan
August 9, 2012Well, you can always view it in HTML. However, you should be able to open the document in Google Docs and view it from there without even having to download it. And if you do decide to download it, you can just choose not to save it.
Oron
August 9, 2012Several good answers below, so I’d just like to provide an overview. There are really two options:
1. Have the file opened in the cloud (e.g. by GoogleDocs/Drive) and displayed as a web page.
2. Have the attachment downloaded to your hard disc and opened by Word. This can be done explicitly (you download the file, save it to a known place and open it) or implicitly (Outlook or your browser saves the file to a “temp” folder and opens it), but either way, the file will be downloaded first and then opened.
If you choose to follow the second option, I would suggest that on the whole it is better to save the files explicitly, because then 1) you can access them again if necessary without having to download a second copy and 2) your hard disc will be less cluttered with copies of temporary files.
kathe
October 7, 2012but i used to be able to print a doc without saving it to my desktop furst….why can’t i do it now?
SM Mhaisale
October 24, 20121) Click on settings
2) Go To the bottom of the page where is an option “advanced settings”
3) Go to downloads
4) De-select Ask where to save each file before downloading
I hope this helps.
Capt SM