 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com Today I will have another episode of Google Docs Tips and Tricks video and I will talk about how to use Google Docs offline. If this is your first time or a repeat visit, thank you for your support on this channel. I am always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you are interested in, please visit for more. If you are only interested in tutorial videos, there will be links in the description box below. So Google Docs let you allow to use offline and you have to do a few things to use this feature and in today's video I am going to show you how you can use Google Docs offline on your computer or laptop or on your smartphone or tablet. So the first thing on your computer if you would like to start using Google Docs offline so you have to go to Google Docs main page or home page and you can do that by doing Google Docs search and if you hit enter then you can click on the Google Docs match which is going to be docs.google.com. So this will take you to Google Docs main page and here it is going to show you recent documents and it is going to show you more if you have more they are going to be stacked under each other. So in order to use the Google Docs offline feature you have to use a Chrome based browser. So for example right now I am using an edge browser and it works because the engine is based on Chrome. So if you go to the lower left corner right here so you are going to see main menu click on it and then you are going to go to settings and if you go to settings then there is going to be an option offline and you can see here it says that create open and edit your recent Google Docs files on this device while offline. So you have to check this on so if you just slide it to the right then click ok. So right now you are set to use Google Docs offline and it is going to take your recent documents offline and you can edit them and what it does that you know it saves those documents on your computer and whenever you are online again it just backs up to the Google server right away. So in order to make an individual document offline what you have to do from your screen you can click on the three dots which appears on the lower right corner so if you click on it and you are going to see that there is an option here available offline and you have to slide it to the right and you can see that there is a check mark right now but if you look at these docs they don't have this check mark so it means that you know this doc is currently available offline. So if you are working on a document and you would like to make that offline then you can do that by going to the file and then there is going to be an option make available offline so if you click on it and you can see that you will get this message that document is available now offline so what it does that it makes that document available offline and now we can see that this document has the check mark which tells that this is available offline. So just to note that when you are offline or when you are using Google Docs offline you don't have the option to share live online so what it means that if you are working on a project or doc with other members then it's not going to show you what changes are being made or editing are being made by the other members and also it does not allow you to use the dictionary or spell checking and also it does not allow you to you know insert pictures or anything from the web which you require online connection. So that's how you can use Google Docs offline on your computer on your laptop now I'm going to show you how you can use this feature on your smartphone or tablet. To use Google Docs offline on your smartphone you have to install first Google Docs on your phone if you do not have that already you can do so by going to your app store or play store so for example I have an android phone so if you go to the play store then all you have to do is search for Google Docs and it's going to give you the Google Docs so if you have already installed it then it's just it will tell you that to open it if you don't then you have to just go through the installation process so let's open it and here it's going to show you the documents you have and the first thing you have to do you have to go to settings which is going to be on the lower left corner so if you click on it and then you're going to settings which is right here and then you'll see an option here which states that make your files available offline so right here offline so you have to check this option you have to slide it to the right the reason mine is showing already checked because I did that before so once you do that what happens here that you know it's going to show you recent documents offline and in order to make any individual or any documents offline which is not offline yet so you have to do click on the three dots which is right here and then you're going to see that make available offline here is an option so if you just click on it and then you can see that you know file will be made available offline that message and then here you're going to see a tiny check mark on the lower right corner of the dock so that means that dick this dock is available offline so that's how you can you know make docks available offline and if you are working on an individual dock which is not offline yet then you can do so just by going to the upper right corner and then here you're going to see the available offline option and if it's not in a checked you can just slide it to the right and that will make your docks available offline so that's how you make Google docks offline both on your laptop or computer or on your mobile or cell phone or smartphone or tablet and it's very simple and easy to do and you can you know you don't have to be connected to online to work on your Google docks and once you're working offline so what happens when you are online next time then it's going to just you know sync it to the server or Google server and then it will save your offline activities just on your local device and then whenever you're online it'll just you know sync to the Google and your other devices so thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you