Epitome: Andy Wolber / TechRepublic

G Suite, Google's cloud-based office software platform, has made remote collaboration simpler than ever. Sharing and creating documents tin can be done in a snap, and locally stored files tin can be uploaded and shared via Google bulldoze too.

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

Remote workers who are new to Google Drive need to start with the basics, like how to upload a file. At that place are ii ways to upload documents, photos, videos, and other types of images to Google Bulldoze, and both can be done in a snap.

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Method i: How to drag and drop

In Effigy A, you'll see an empty Google Drive folder, which shows the message Drop Files Here Or Utilize The New Push button. That's exactly what you need to do to upload a file to Google Drive.

Effigy A

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

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

Figure B

Scan to a file to "drag and drop" it into your Google Drive.

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

Click and agree on the document you desire to upload, drag it to the Google Drive window (Figure C), and and then release it.

Figure C

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

It may take a few seconds to upload the file, during which time a window in the lesser-right corner of your Google Drive folio volition bear witness the upload status. Once complete, yous'll see the file listed in your Google Drive folder (Figure D), and you'll be gear up to share information technology with others.

Figure D

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

Method ii: How to use the New push button

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

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

Figure E

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

In this case, we want to upload a file, so click File Upload. If you have a whole folder total of documents to upload, you tin do that as well–but click the option right below File Upload, and select the folder y'all want to copy to Google Drive.

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

Figure F

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

Subsequently clicking Open, the upload process continues equally information technology did with the drag-and-drop method. Once Google Bulldoze finishes the upload, you lot'll be able to share the document with whoever needs it.