A new feature has been added to Gmail which is going to prove very useful for you particularly if you tend to receive a lot of Microsoft Office documents via email. You can now edit Office documents straight within the inbox. Clicking on a new Google Drive edit option will automatically convert those files into Google Docs, Sheets or Slides and thus making it very easy to edit them.
There are certain advantages of editing your files this way. Since they’re converted into Google Drive files, there’s just one single document to keep track of that’s capable of displaying revision history as well. The document will also become accessible from virtually anywhere since it will be stored in the cloud, and can be selected for offline access as well.
Gmail isn’t the only email service that lets users do this. It is obviously possible to edit Office documents from within Outlook using the Office Online service from Microsoft, but that functionality doesn’t exist Gmail since its a competing service after all.
Nonetheless the folks behind Gmail have come up with their own solution. This feature is going to come in handy for users who need to work with Office documents on the go, so it will certainly be well received by Gmail users.