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G Suite, Google's cloud-based office software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than e'er. Sharing and creating documents can be washed in a snap, and locally stored files can be uploaded and shared via Google bulldoze equally well.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Bulldoze demand to first with the nuts, like how to upload a file. At that place are two means to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both tin can exist done in a snap.

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Method ane: How to elevate and driblet

In Figure A, you'll see an empty Google Drive binder, which shows the message Driblet Files Here Or Utilize The New Button. That'due south exactly what you need to do to upload a file to Google Bulldoze.

Figure A

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

To upload using the "drag and drib" method, make sure you've browsed to the location of the file you want to upload from your calculator. In this example, I've created a test document that I've placed in a test folder 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 desire to upload the certificate to in your web browser, and then open the folder where the document you want to upload is located, using the Finder in macOS or the Explorer in Windows.

Click and concur on the document you want to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), and so release information technology.

Figure C

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

It may take a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-right corner of your Google Drive page volition show the upload status. In one case complete, you'll run into the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Figure D), and you'll be ready to share it with others.

Figure D

Afterward the file is loaded, you volition see it listed in your Google Drive.

Method 2: How to utilize the New button

If y'all prefer to scan to the file y'all want to upload instead of dragging and dropping, that's possible as well.

With Google Bulldoze open, like in Figure A, wait for the colorful plus sign next to the word New on the left side of the screen. Click that button, and you lot'll be presented with a number of options (Figure Due east).

Effigy E

Clicking the New push gives you a drib-downward menu of options.

In this case, nosotros want to upload a file, and so click File Upload. If yous take a whole binder full of documents to upload, yous can exercise that as well–just click the option right beneath File Upload, and select the folder you want to re-create to Google Bulldoze.

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

Figure F

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

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