How to Manage Google Drive Settings By Google Drive itself has only a few settings to keep track of, but they can make your experience a little easier. To manage the main Google Drive settings, log in to Google Drive, click the Settings icon (it looks like a gear) at the top right corner, and choose Settings. You’ll see the Settings dialog box in Figure 1.
People who use Office on Windows may open Office files from Google Drive with a plug-in. Simply install the Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office, and Google Drive will display as a file. You can follow the steps below to check the visibility settings on your documents: Go to Google Drive. Select the empty box next to the file or folder you'd like to check. Click the Google Drive share icon (silhouette with 'plus' sign). The 'Share Settings' window will appear.
General, Convert Uploads: Check the box if you want documents created in applications like Microsoft Word or Excel to be automatically converted to Google Docs and Sheets when you upload them. If you don’t want them converted, you can still upload the files and view them, but to edit them later, you have to open them in the corresponding Google app. General, Language: Click Change Language Settings to choose a different language for your Google apps. You can also choose a Language Variant, which means how that language is used in different parts of the world. For example, many English words are spelled differently in the United Kingdom than in the United States. If you choose United Kingdom as your English variant, Google’s spellchecker will use spellings like theatre instead of theater.
General, Density: This setting controls how much space appears between items in the list of documents on your Google Drive. If you like white space, you may want to choose Comfortable, but if you like to see as many items on a page as possible without a lot of scrolling, you’ll probably prefer Compact. The Cozy setting is somewhere in between.
Under Manage Apps: You can connect Google apps to your Drive. The various Google apps are listed automatically and chosen by default. However, say you prefer a different spreadsheet editor than Google Sheets. You can click Connect More Apps and browse through the list of alternative apps. When you find an app you prefer, click it, and then click the Connect button.
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The new app appears in the Manage Apps list. To use that app by default, check the box next to it and uncheck the corresponding Google app. Click the Done button when you’re finished. The default Google apps tend to provide only basic functionality. When you browse for alternative apps under Manage Apps, you may be able to find an app that does more. For example, Google Docs has limited table functionality; however, the Zoho Writer app enables you to do a lot more with tables, including some nifty formatting.
The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of today, Google. Support will be cut off on December 11th and the app will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018. Users who are still running the Drive app will start seeing notifications in October that it’s “going away,” and the company will steer customers towards one of two replacements depending on whether they’re a consumer or business user. Google Drive the service isn’t going anywhere. You can still access it from the web, smartphone apps, and either of the software options mentioned below.
Google now has two fairly new software tools for backing up your data and/or accessing files in the cloud., the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps. It offers essentially the same functionality as Drive and works much the same way.
And on the enterprise side, Google has rolled out Drive File Stream, which saves space on your local drive while providing access to “all of your Google Drive files on demand, directly from your computer.” It’s a much more elegant and integrated approach. “Say goodbye to time-consuming file syncing and any concerns about disk space,” Google says of the benefits that Drive File Stream introduces. There are some differences between the apps; both can do one or two things that the other can’t, so check out to see which is the better fit. For most people the Backup and Sync option is probably it, though power users have complained about its lack of support for NAS drives.