After the upload is complete, navigate to ‘Recent’ on the left sidebar to find your uploaded Word document. Right-click on the file, choose ‘Open with’, and then select ‘Google Docs’.

Creating a new file, whether Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Forms, in Chrome is easy, if you know the proper URL shortcuts. Let's dig into those.

Google Docs is an incredibly convenient word processor, and a number of forward thinking tools mean you may be able to save docs you mistakenly deleted.