If you’ve installed Google Drive for your Mac/PC, Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that you’ve created will automatically sync to the Google Drive folder on your computer. You can change this setting at any time:
- Go to the Google Drive menu
on your computer.
- Select "Preferences..."
- Check or uncheck the box next to "Sync Google Docs files." If you uncheck the box, Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations will never sync to the Google Drive folder on your computer.
How Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations appear on your computer
Links to your Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations will be stored in the Google Drive folder on your computer. Each file type has its own extension:
- Google document: filename.gdoc
- Google spreadsheet or form: filename.gsheet
- Google presentation: filename.gslides
- Google drawing: filename.gdraw
When you open a Google document, spreadsheet, presentation or drawing, it’ll launch in a new tab or window in your default browser as long as you have an Internet connection.