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G Suite, Google'due south deject-based function software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than ever. Sharing and creating documents can be done in a snap, and locally stored files tin be uploaded and shared via Google bulldoze every bit well.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Drive need to showtime with the basics, like how to upload a file. There are two ways to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both can exist done in a snap.

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Method one: How to drag and drop

In Figure A, you lot'll see an empty Google Drive folder, which shows the message Drop Files Here Or Use The New Button. That's exactly what yous need to do to upload a file to Google Drive.

Figure A

Drag and driblet files or click the New push 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 case, I've created a test certificate that I've placed in a examination folder on my desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

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

Open the Google Drive folder y'all desire to upload the document to in your web browser, and so open the binder where the certificate yous 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, elevate information technology to the Google Drive window (Effigy C), so release it.

Figure C

Select a file and elevate 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-correct corner of your Google Drive page will evidence the upload status. Once consummate, you'll see the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Figure D), and you'll be ready to share it with others.

Effigy D

After the file is loaded, yous will see information technology listed in your Google Drive.

Method 2: How to utilise the New push button

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

With Google Drive open, like in Effigy A, expect 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 be presented with a number of options (Effigy E).

Figure E

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

In this case, we want to upload a file, so click File Upload. If you take a whole folder full of documents to upload, you can practise that as well–merely click the option right below File Upload, and select the folder you lot want to copy to Google Drive.

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

Effigy F

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

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