↗ Open in Google Docs
.docx.doc.odt.rtf
→ native Google Docs, opened in your browser.
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Open in Google Docs
A Finder Quick Action: right-click Word, Excel or CSV files and they open as native Google Docs and Sheets a few seconds later. No Google Drive for desktop, no sync folder.
What it does
Two items in the right-click menu
↗ Open in Google Sheets
.xlsx.xlsm.xls.ods.csv.tsv
→ native Google Sheets, opened in your browser.
Converted files go to a “From Mac” folder in your Google Drive.
How it works 01 02 03
Small script, careful details
One request per file
Upload and conversion happen in a single Google Drive API call: about 3–5 seconds per file, up to 8 files at a time. Most of that time is Google converting the file.
No duplicates when Google goes quiet
Every upload carries a random tag in its Drive appProperties. If Google stops answering mid-upload, the tool looks the file up by that tag and opens it instead of uploading it twice.
Errors you can act on
Password-protected or damaged file, no internet, full Drive, sign-in needed: each one gets its own clear macOS notification.
Setup
One-time, a few minutes
- 1.macOS 12 or later, the Xcode Command Line Tools and rclone (brew install rclone).
- 2.Your own free Google Cloud OAuth client with the Drive API: a few minutes, step by step in the README.
- 3../install.sh adds both Quick Actions to Finder.
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Your files, your Drive
Files go straight from your Mac to your own Google Drive. There is no server in between and no telemetry.
The tool uses the drive.file scope, so it can only see the files it created, not the rest of your Drive.
Try it on your Mac
Free and open source under the MIT license. Issues and ideas are welcome on GitHub.
github.com/neebird/open-in-google-docs