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G Suite, Google'southward deject-based office software platform, has fabricated remote collaboration simpler than e'er. Sharing and creating documents tin can be done in a snap, and locally stored files can be uploaded and shared via Google drive likewise.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Drive need to start with the nuts, like how to upload a file. At that place are ii 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 1: How to drag and driblet

In Figure A, you'll run into an empty Google Drive binder, which shows the message Drop Files Hither Or Use The New Push. That'south exactly what you lot need to exercise to upload a file to Google Drive.

Figure A

Drag and drop files or click the New button 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 desire to upload from your reckoner. In this case, I've created a test document that I've placed in a examination folder on my desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

Browse to a file to "drag and driblet" information technology into your Google Drive.

Open the Google Drive folder you want to upload the document to in your 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 concord on the document you want to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), then release it.

Figure C

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

Information technology may take a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-correct corner of your Google Drive folio volition show the upload status. In one case complete, you'll see the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Figure D), and you lot'll be ready to share information technology with others.

Figure D

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

Method two: How to utilize the New push

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

With Google Drive open, similar in Figure A, await for the colorful plus sign next to the give-and-take New on the left side of the screen. Click that button, and you'll be presented with a number of options (Figure E).

Effigy E

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

In this example, we want to upload a file, and so click File Upload. If you have a whole folder full of documents to upload, you lot can exercise that too–just click the option correct beneath File Upload, and select the folder you desire to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

After clicking Open up, the upload process continues as it did with the drag-and-drop method. Once Google Bulldoze finishes the upload, you'll exist able to share the document with whoever needs information technology.