The process is identical for PowerPoint and Excel documents.

Sign in to your Google account and go to yourGoogle Drive.

Google Docs documents are stored in your Google Drive.

Google Drive - New selected

SelectNewin the upper-left corner of the screen.

Another window opens for you to browse to the location of your Word document.

Find the file, and upload it.

Google Drive - File upload selected

Google Drive takes a few seconds to import the file.

You’ll receive a notification in the lower-right corner of the screen.

It lets you know when the upload is complete.

Google Drive - document uploaded

You’ll also see the document appear in your drive.

Select your document in the drive to open it.

You’ll see your document in the Google Drive viewer.

Google Drive - select document to upload

It looks like a net online gate-based PDF file viewer.

At the top of the document, selectOpen with Google Docs.

The document opens in Google Docs.

Google Drive - Open with Google Docs selected

you could also use the editing tools in the Google Docs header.

These tools are almost identical to the editing tools in Microsoft Word.

Google Docskeyboard shortcutsare also the same as Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts.

Google Docs - edit

Toshare the document and collaborate with others, selectSharein the upper-right corner of the screen.