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1000 Suite, Google's cloud-based role software platform, has fabricated remote collaboration simpler than ever. Sharing and creating documents tin exist washed in a snap, and locally stored files can be uploaded and shared via Google drive as well.

If you're working from home and need to collaborate with coworkers, Google Drive can be invaluable–if you lot 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. In that location are 2 ways to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Drive, and both can be done in a snap.

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Method 1: How to drag and drop

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

Figure A

Elevate and driblet files or click the New button to add files to your Google Bulldoze.

To upload using the "drag and drib" method, make sure you've browsed to the location of the file you lot want to upload from your computer. In this case, I've created a examination 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 up the Google Drive folder you want to upload the document to in your web browser, so open the folder where the document yous desire 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 then release information technology.

Figure C

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

It may have a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the bottom-right corner of your Google Drive page will show the upload status. Once consummate, yous'll encounter the file listed in your Google Drive binder (Figure D), and you'll be ready to share it with others.

Figure D

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

Method 2: How to use the New button

If you adopt to browse to the file you desire to upload instead of dragging and dropping, that's possible likewise.

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

Figure E

Clicking the New button gives you lot a drop-downward menu of options.

In this case, nosotros want to upload a file, so click File Upload. If y'all accept a whole folder full of documents to upload, yous can do that every bit well–just click the option right beneath File Upload, and select the binder you desire to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure 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. In one case Google Drive finishes the upload, you'll be able to share the certificate with whoever needs it.