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G Suite, Google's 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 besides.

If yous're working from habitation and need to collaborate with coworkers, Google Drive tin exist invaluable–if you know how to apply it.

Remote workers who are new to Google Drive demand to first 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 drib

In Figure A, you'll run across an empty Google Drive folder, which shows the message Drop Files Here Or Apply The New Push button. That'southward exactly what you 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 "drag and drop" method, brand certain yous've browsed to the location of the file yous want to upload from your computer. In this case, I've created a exam document 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 the Google Drive folder you want to upload the certificate to in your web browser, and so open the folder where the certificate you want to upload is located, using the Finder in macOS or the Explorer in Windows.

Click and hold on the certificate you want to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), and so 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 bear witness the upload status. Once consummate, yous'll come across the file listed in your Google Bulldoze folder (Figure D), and you'll be fix to share it with others.

Figure D

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

Method 2: How to use the New button

If yous adopt to browse to the file y'all want to upload instead of dragging and dropping, that's possible too.

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 you'll exist presented with a number of options (Figure E).

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Clicking the New push button gives y'all a drop-downward carte of options.

In this instance, we want to upload a file, then click File Upload. If you lot have a whole folder total of documents to upload, you can do that as well–just click the option right beneath File Upload, and select the folder you lot want to re-create 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 (Figure F).

Effigy F

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

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