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Thou Suite, Google'due south cloud-based role software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than always. Sharing and creating documents tin can exist done in a snap, and locally stored files can be uploaded and shared via Google drive besides.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Drive demand to start with the nuts, like how to upload a file. There are two means to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both can exist washed in a snap.

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Method one: How to drag and drop

In Figure A, you lot'll see an empty Google Bulldoze folder, which shows the message Drop Files Hither Or Utilise The New Button. That'due south exactly what you need to do to upload a file to Google Drive.

Figure A

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

To upload using the "drag and drib" method, make sure y'all've browsed to the location of the file you want to upload from your estimator. In this case, I've created a test document that I've placed in a exam folder on my desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

Browse to a file to "elevate and drib" it into your Google Bulldoze.

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

Click and concur on the document you want to upload, elevate it to the Google Drive window (Figure C), and and then release it.

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Select a file and drag and drop information technology into your Google Drive.

It may take a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-correct corner of your Google Drive page will prove 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

After the file is loaded, you will meet it listed in your Google Bulldoze.

Method 2: How to use the New push

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

With Google Drive open up, similar in Figure A, wait for the colorful plus sign next to the discussion New on the left side of the screen. Click that push, and you'll be presented with a number of options (Figure Eastward).

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Clicking the New button gives you a drop-down carte of options.

In this case, we want to upload a file, then click File Upload. If you accept a whole folder total of documents to upload, you tin do that as well–just click the option right beneath File Upload, and select the folder you lot want to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

Subsequently 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.