What I tried to do is, select some text and drag and drop it to another MS Word 2003 document. The MS Word document was opened with MS Word 2003. It's really a pain to press control-c and click the MS field and press control-v again and again.
Google-docs – way to drag text from Google Docs to MS Word
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As noted by Felipe Alvarez, this is no longer available as an option. Therefore, while this answer was correct two years ago when the product was Google Docs, it no longer applies to the current Google Drive app.
Assuming you mean opening documents from your list, that's in the Google Docs settings on the "General" tab.
Where items open:
Your choices are:
- In a new window
- In the current window
Screen shot:
Select the latter for what you want.
Try Control+Shift+\
Works in Google Chrome for me.
I found this at https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/going-google/accessibility/google-documents-keyboard-shortcuts---mac
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Best Answer
Not directly, as you found out. But if you have a lot of text fragments to copy to a local MS Word, the following workaround might help: