Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office has arrived, but not for Macs.

I was eager for something like this to come along, so when I say a new post in my reader entitled "Google Cloud Connect or: Shouldn't This Have Been Built into Word in the First Place?" I anxiously clicked away. As the post will tell you;

What does Google Cloud Connect do for you?

• Cloud Storage – Every document you create or open and save on your computer is saved both to your computer and to your Google Docs account. That means if you need to work on it from another computer, you can just go to docs.google.com and download it.
• Version Control – Every time you click save in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, Cloud Connect will save a new version of the document. Did you ever delete something by accident and then save the file? Or edit a document only to realize that the previous version was better? Version control can solve these problems. You can access old versions, listed by date, from directly within Word, PowerPoint, or Excel.
• Collaboration – Just like Google Docs, Google Cloud Connect allows you to share your documents with others just by entering their email address. Your collaborators can edit the files simultaneously, and if you both edit the same part of the document at the same time, you’ll be able to decide which version should be used.

And more. There are endless benefits to a setup like this. Now you can work online or off, at any computer, and have all of the functionality of Word or the simplicity of Google Docs. This is similar to MS Office Apps, which has proven to be very useful for me many times, but will utilize the Google Docs setup I already use.

Mac users will have to wait, from "Google Cloud Connect moves Microsoft Office files to Google Docs, as long as you're not using a Mac"

"Due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time," Sinha said. "We look forward to when that time comes so we can provide this feature to our Mac customers as well."

To find out more, or start using connect, go to Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office.