ZIP and RAR support for Google Docs

Posted Date: 19-Jul-2011	Category: Internet & Browsers	Rating:
Author: Varun Kumar	Member Level: Diamond	Points: 15

Read this article to know more about ZIP and RAR support by Google Docs. Google Doc's has many features like editing the document, sharing the document online. Now Google Doc's has support for ZIP and RAR files.

Google Doc's is one of the best products from Google. With Google Doc's you can edit the documents, share the documents and you can preview the documents from your Gmail which sent as attachement to you.

Until today, it is not possible to preview ZIP and RAR files which were sent to your mail as attachment. Today Google Doc's has officially declared that they are going to support for ZIP and RAR files also. So from now, we can see the preview of ZIP and RAR file attachments which got in our mail in Google Doc's viewer.

When some one sends you a ZIP and RAR files as an attachment, you will be able to view its contents from within your browser by clicking on View.
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When you click on the view button on the ZIP and RAR files, a separate window will open in which you have, all of the files in the archive, the file types, and the size of those files.

When you move on to the list, you can activate a menu by clicking the "Actions" button. You will be able to View items supported by Google Docs Viewer and you can Print(PDF)those that which offer PDF support. You can save to Google Docs or you can Download all the files.
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As per Google "ZIP and RAR archives that are embedded inside other archives also work". For example, if any one sent you a RAR file inside a ZIP file, you can just click on that file to access the embedded archive.

Now, users can view ZIP and RAR files in their mobile also. They can view from Google Docs for mobile.

with the support for ZIP and RAR, now there is no need to download the file and extract all the contents, now users can check which files should be downloaded by viewing them in Google Docs.

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