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Grand Suite, Google's cloud-based office software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than ever. Sharing and creating documents can exist done in a snap, and locally stored files can be uploaded and shared via Google drive too.

If you lot're working from dwelling house and demand to collaborate with coworkers, Google Drive tin be invaluable–if y'all know how to use it.

Remote workers who are new to Google Bulldoze demand to start 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 can be done in a snap.

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Method one: How to drag and drib

In Figure A, y'all'll run into an empty Google Drive folder, which shows the message Drop Files Here Or Employ The New Push. That's exactly what you demand to practice to upload a file to Google Bulldoze.

Figure A

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

To upload using the "elevate and drop" method, make sure you've browsed to the location of the file you want to upload from your reckoner. In this example, I've created a examination document that I've placed in a test folder on my desktop (Figure B).

Effigy B

Scan to a file to "drag and drop" information technology into your Google Drive.

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

Click and hold on the certificate yous want to upload, elevate information technology to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), and then release it.

Effigy C

Select a file and drag and drop it into your Google Drive.

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 page will bear witness the upload status. Once complete, y'all'll come across the file listed in your Google Drive binder (Figure D), and you'll be gear up to share information technology with others.

Figure D

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

Method two: How to use the New push button

If you prefer to browse to the file you desire to upload instead of dragging and dropping, that's possible too.

With Google Drive open, like 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 you'll be presented with a number of options (Effigy E).

Figure E

Clicking the New push gives you a driblet-down menu of options.

In this case, nosotros want to upload a file, and so click File Upload. If you take a whole folder full of documents to upload, you can practice that as well–just click the pick correct below File Upload, and select the folder y'all want to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

Afterward clicking Open, the upload process continues as it did with the drag-and-driblet method. Once Google Bulldoze finishes the upload, you lot'll be able to share the document with whoever needs it.