Import and Export your OpenOffice Documents with Google Docs
For people on the go, who use multiple machines and need constant access to their documents, there’ GoogleDocs. But many people don’t particularly love using Google Doc’s limited functionality to create their documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google is improving this every day but it still does not have the functionality of a fully powered office suite.
While OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs won’t quite let you synchronize your OpenOffice.org documents with your Google Docs, this OpenOffice extension does make it easy to import/export your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, giving you a centralized storage for your documents while on the move.
First we need to get the extention. You can obtain the extension here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd
Once you download it to your desktop, follow these steps to install it:
- Open Tools –> Extension Manager
- Select the top-level node ‘My Extensions’ as category.
- Click on the ‘Add’ button. A dialog opens where you select the extension that you want to install.
- Double-click on the *.oxt file in your system’s file browser.
- Restart OpenOffice
A new toolbar will show up in OpenOffice.org with two options: Export to Google Docs and Import from Google Docs. The export button basically lets you save your documents online so you can edit them from any computer, share them with collaborators, or do whatever else it is you do with Google Docs. The import feature brings up a list of all your documents stored online and lets you open them up one by one. There’s no batch import option available at the moment.
This is not a synchronization option. You must export and import manually. If you have an older copy of a document on your desktop and a newer version with the same version on Google Docs, it’s up to you to figure out how you’d like to handle that. But all in all this is still a very handy extension to OpenOffice.org.
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