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G Suite, Google'southward 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 bulldoze likewise.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Bulldoze need to kickoff 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 washed in a snap.

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Method i: How to drag and drop

In Figure A, you'll run across an empty Google Drive folder, which shows the message Drib Files Hither Or Apply The New Button. That's exactly what you need to exercise 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 "elevate and drop" method, make certain yous've browsed to the location of the file yous want to upload from your computer. In this case, I've created a test document that I've placed in a examination binder on my desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

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

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

Click and hold on the document y'all want to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), then release it.

Effigy C

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

It may accept a few seconds to upload the file, during which fourth dimension a window in the lesser-right corner of your Google Drive folio will show the upload status. Once complete, yous'll see the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Effigy D), and you'll be fix to share it with others.

Effigy D

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

Method 2: How to use the New button

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

With Google Drive open, like in Figure A, look for the colorful plus sign next to the give-and-take New on the left side of the screen. Click that push button, and you lot'll exist presented with a number of options (Figure Eastward).

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Clicking the New button gives y'all a driblet-down card of options.

In this case, nosotros desire to upload a file, so click File Upload. If yous have a whole folder full of documents to upload, y'all can do that as well–just click the option right beneath File Upload, and select the folder you lot desire to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

After clicking Open, the upload process continues equally information technology did with the drag-and-drop method. Once Google Drive finishes the upload, you'll be able to share the document with whoever needs information technology.