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Google has announced the availability of Google Docs even when a user is offline. Using Google Gears, Google Docs will create a document cloud of the user’s online Google Docs accounts. This doc cloud can then be accessed by the user on the desktop and subsequently the user can edit the document and save it on the desktop again. The fun then starts the next time the user connects to the Internet, Google Docs (via Google Gears) will then sync up the documents edited offline with the documents online.

Google Docs offline will be rolled out gradually to users. You’d know when it is already enabled if you see a green downward arrow at the upper right hand of the Google Docs screen. Clicking on the green arrow would prompt Google Docs to ask you to install Google Gears. Once Google Gears is enabled, you can start working offline with your Google docs by simply typing http://docs.google.com on your web browser (make sure you are offline).

Google Docs offline is definitely a welcome addition to the already useful features of Google Docs. Hopefully, it gets implemented as well to spreadsheets and presentation. In the meantime, let us all enjoy working with our documents seamlessly online and offline. Hats off to Google Docs for this new feature.

Here’s a video of how Google Docs offline works from the Google Docs team:

Read [Official Google Docs Blog]