Office Document Editor for Chromebooks

Google works on creating a Native Client app for Quickoffice, a software acquired last year. There's an Office Viewer extension for Chrome, which is bundled with Chrome OS.



Now Google experiments with adding editing features to the Office Viewer. If you have a Chromebook, you've switched to the Dev Channel and have the latest Chrome OS version (29.0.1547.2), you can enable these features:



1. open a new tab



2. type this in the address bar: chrome://flags/ and then press Enter



3. use Ctrl+F to search for "document editing"



4. click "Enable" next to "Enable document editing"

5. click the "Restart Now" button to restart your computer and use the new flag.



The editor is pretty basic and it only works for Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. For some reason, the document editor only saves documents in the Office 2007 format.

{ via François Beaufort }