The Google booth is seen at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in this January 5, 2006 file photo.

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Google will begin over the next several weeks to allow users of its Google Docs word processing application to edit documents without an active web connection, on planes, trains and other disconnected spots, media reported Tuesday.

The offline feature of Google Docs temporarily stores documents changes on a user's local computer. Once reconnected to the Internet, any changes the user make will automatically be synchronized and stored on Google-hosted computers.

These include the ability to edit spreadsheets and viewing or editing presentations, among other applications Google now offers online.

Offline editing is a free feature using a technology known as Google Gears that the company introduced around 15 months ago to application developers to build offline features into their own programs.

The technology already works within Google's news feed reader, Google Reader, and applications from independent Web developers such as task-management service "Remember the Milk," from an Australian-based company of the same name.

"This is still early days. We're working to make more web applications and functions work where connections are unavailable," Google said in a statement.