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G Suite, Google'due south deject-based office software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than ever. Sharing and creating documents can be done in a snap, and locally stored files can exist uploaded and shared via Google drive also.

If yous're working from abode and need to interact with coworkers, Google Drive can be invaluable–if you know how to use information technology.

Remote workers who are new to Google Bulldoze need to starting time with the basics, like how to upload a file. There are two ways to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both tin be washed in a snap.

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Method one: How to drag and drib

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

Figure A

Elevate and drib files or click the New button to add files to your Google Drive.

To upload using the "drag and driblet" method, brand certain y'all've browsed to the location of the file you want to upload from your computer. In this case, I've created a exam certificate that I've placed in a test binder on my desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

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

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

Click and hold on the document you lot want to upload, elevate it to the Google Bulldoze window (Figure C), and and then release it.

Figure C

Select a file and elevate and drop it into your Google Bulldoze.

Information technology may take a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-right corner of your Google Drive folio will show the upload status. Once complete, you'll see the file listed in your Google Drive binder (Effigy D), and you'll be ready to share it with others.

Figure D

After the file is loaded, you volition see it listed in your Google Bulldoze.

Method 2: How to use the New button

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

With Google Drive open, similar in Figure A, look for the colorful plus sign next 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 E).

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

In this case, we want to upload a file, so click File Upload. If y'all have a whole folder full of documents to upload, y'all tin can practice that equally well–just click the choice correct beneath File Upload, and select the folder yous desire to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

Later clicking Open, the upload procedure continues as information technology did with the drag-and-drop method. One time Google Drive finishes the upload, you'll be able to share the certificate with whoever needs information technology.