Anyone who works with Microsoft office knows that as you are working on something if is necessary to save your work. There are three common practices when saving Microsoft Office in most settings.<\/p>\n
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- C: drive: This is the computer storage space on an individual machine you may be working on.<\/li>\n
- Network Space: This varies from business to business and is usually unique to each environment, but it is common for people to back up or save their work to a server based environment which is usually represented by an additional drive letter. For NMC the Q: drive acts as the individual server based location, while additional places such as the S: drive for employees and the N: drive for NMC dropbox are also available options.<\/li>\n
- The third data storage option is an external device such as a Flash drive (also known as a memory stick or thumb drive) or an external hard drive which allows for the physical movement of date from one location to another based on utilization of this device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The reason it is important to understand these options is that Google Drive operates differently and to switch between the two relies on the ability to transition between various locations. Google Drive operates on a \u201cCloud\u201d storage system which is completely different than three common storage locations explained above. A cloud relies on off-site systems to store the data, keep it secure, and make it readily available which in this case would have the systems supported by Google itself. To switch from Google Drive documents to Microsoft office you must first login to your Google Drive account which at NMC can be accessed by logging into MyNMC, selecting the Google Menu represented by the \u201cSquare of Squares\u201d and then selecting Drive. Once you have selected your document you can then choose to download it by selecting the downward arrow on the black background. Once the download button is selected it should automatically format to open as a Microsoft Office document, however you can select in what format you would like to open it.<\/p>\n![\"google2\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/google2.png\")
The document will be named in a similar fashion to the one in Google Drive, and the first thing you should do when converting is to determine the location the file should be saved to and rename it in accordance with what you will recognize.<\/p>\n
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