From the Google Drive app you can open Microsoft Office documents (encrypted or not) directly into the Office mobile apps. #ENCRYPTED GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER FOR ANDROID#It’s not clear why it’s taken so long but maybe because there’s no pressing need for it?Īfter all, there are free Office mobile apps for Android (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). It’s taken more than a year but now the Google Drive app can also preview Office password protected documents. If you try to open the protected document with Google Docs to edit, you’ll be stopped in your tracks. Google Drive will accept comments but can’t save them to the protected document and there’s NO warning that your comments aren’t saved! Preview only Comments might be saved in non-encrypted documents but are definitely NOT possible in password protected docs. Note the ‘Add a comment’ tip on the left. Then you can preview the document in the browser window. Only preview of Office documents is available, not open and edit.Ĭlick on a password encrypted Office document in Google Drive online, you’ll be asked for the password. In early 2017 the browser-based part of Google Drive let you preview password protected Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Any documents placed in this folder get automatically encrypted at the file level, meaning that they’re encrypted before ever reaching the cloud and stay encrypted anywhere they’re synced or sent. Here’s how it works online and in the Google Drive app. Deploying Sookasa for Google Drive automatically creates a special folder that looks and acts like all your other Google Drive folders. Now Click on the Advanced option at the bottom of the General Tab Step 3. Secure the account by using strong passwords and two-factor authentication Limit the number of people accessing the folder to people you trust Encrypt the. Right-click the folder you want to encrypt and select Properties from the menu. Select a folder on your PC and then right-click to Choose Properties Option. Google has updated their Drive app to support preview of Microsoft Office documents with password encryption. Select a folder on your PC with files that you want to encrypt.
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