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One thousand Suite, Google's deject-based office software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than always. Sharing and creating documents can be done in a snap, and locally stored files can exist uploaded and shared via Google bulldoze as well.

If you're working from home and need to collaborate with coworkers, Google Drive can be invaluable–if you know how to apply it.

Remote workers who are new to Google Bulldoze demand to start with the basics, like how to upload a file. At that place are two ways to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both can be done in a snap.

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Method ane: How to drag and drop

In Figure A, yous'll see an empty Google Drive binder, which shows the bulletin Drop Files Here Or Use The New Button. That's exactly what you need to do to upload a file to Google Drive.

Figure A

Drag and driblet files or click the New button to add files to your Google Drive.

To upload using the "drag and drib" method, brand certain you've browsed to the location of the file you desire to upload from your figurer. In this case, I've created a examination document that I've placed in a test binder on my desktop (Effigy B).

Effigy B

Browse to a file to "drag and drop" it into your Google Drive.

Open the Google Drive binder you desire to upload the certificate to in your spider web browser, and then open the folder where the document you want to upload is located, using the Finder in macOS or the Explorer in Windows.

Click and agree on the document you want to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Figure C), and so release it.

Figure C

Select a file and elevate and drib it into your Google Drive.

It may have a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-correct corner of your Google Drive page will show the upload condition. In one case complete, you'll see the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Figure D), and you'll be ready to share it with others.

Figure D

Later on the file is loaded, you lot will see it listed in your Google Drive.

Method 2: How to use the New button

If you prefer to scan to the file you want to upload instead of dragging and dropping, that's possible as well.

With Google Drive open, like in Effigy A, look for the colorful plus sign side by side to the word New on the left side of the screen. Click that button, and yous'll be presented with a number of options (Figure Eastward).

Figure E

Clicking the New button gives you a drop-down menu of options.

In this instance, we desire to upload a file, so click File Upload. If you have a whole folder total of documents to upload, you lot can exercise that too–merely click the choice right below File Upload, and select the folder yous desire to copy to Google Drive.

When you click File Upload, a Finder/Explorer window will open. Navigate to the document you desire to upload, and click Open up (Figure F).

Figure F

Select the file, and click Open up to load it to your Google Drive.

Subsequently clicking Open up, the upload process continues as it did with the drag-and-driblet method. One time Google Drive finishes the upload, you'll exist able to share the document with whoever needs it.