If you use Microsoft 365 for your work or with a study program, there’s a new feature in OneDrive that should be of interest. Microsoft has revealed that it is launching offline support for OneDrive on the web, so users can access their files on the cloud storage service without an internet connection.

in a blog postMicrosoft has stated the features that will be available to OneDrive web users offline without an internet connection:

• Open and interact with the Home, My Files, Shared, Favorites, People, and Meeting views of OneDrive.
• View your folders, file names and metadata such as file owner, size, last activity, last opened date and more.
• Use the My Files view of OneDrive for the web to rename, sort, move, or copy files and sync those changes to your OneDrive when you reconnect to the Internet.
• Open locally stored Office files and non-Office files (files marked as “available offline”) in their native application and make and save an edit

Additionally, if you have an online connection while using OneDrive, the new offline mode can still be useful:

• You can set files or folders as available for offline access directly from OneDrive for the web.
• You can free up local storage space by making your local files or folders online only directly from OneDrive for web.
• You’ll experience up to 3x faster load times when viewing and interacting with your OneDrive files in your browser and the OneDrive app in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

The new features work with your PC’s built-in local storage to store information like file names, sizes, file authors, and more. To access the new mode, the OneDrive Sync app will need to be installed on your Windows or Mac PC. So all you have to do is log into the OneDrive web app and there should be a one-time setup to get it ready for offline mode.

Additionally, the OneDrive Files On-Demand feature can now work with the web edition. Microsoft says this now allows users to set OneDrive files to always be available offline on their PC. It can also be used to set files to make them only available online.

Microsoft recently revamped OneDrive in a new 3.0 release with features designed to make it easier for users to file the files they need. In May, Microsoft plans to add support for using Copilot in the web version of OneDrive.