April 23rd, 2018 
Marty Figgs 
Google Drive is usually pretty good at previewing non-Docs files. You can open Microsoft Office documents, OpenDocument files, PDFs, images, compressed archives, and more. But previewing encrypted Office Documents hasn’t been possible – until now.
Google announced the feature on its G Suite Updates blog, and it should already be live for everyone. I tested it with a password-protected PowerPoint document, and it worked just as you would expect. As far as I can tell, Google Drive is the first to support opening protected Office documents – not even Microsoft’s own Office Online can do it.
You can now preview encrypted Microsoft Office documents in Google Drive was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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