Google drive's free cloud storage
service allows you to upload files from
your computer and access them from
anywhere to upload a file click the new
button then select file upload
a dialog box will appear
you can locate and select the file on
your computer then click open and that's
it the file will be uploaded to your
Google Drive if you're looking for a
faster method you can also click and
drag files and folders right into your
browser window to upload this can help
you save time if you want to put a lot
of files under Google Drive at once
Google Drive also allows you to preview
and edit many different types of files
even if you don't have the software for
that file on your computer for example
let's take a look at this spreadsheet I
uploaded that was originally created in
Microsoft Excel you can just
double-click the file to open it and a
preview of the file will appear now if
you want to edit the file select open in
Google sheets at the top of the screen
to keep in mind that with some files you
might see some issues especially with
formatting still all my data is here and
it's easy to edit it and even though I
opened it using Google sheets any
changes will be saved in the original
file format
although Google Drive makes it easy to
edit files in their original format you
also have the option to convert files to
a Google format after you open the file
you can go to file to find the option in
this example we can convert it to the
Google sheets format so we'll select
save as Google sheets now if we go back
to our Google Drive we can see that
there are now two versions of this
spreadsheet the original spreadsheet
that was created in Excel and the new
Google sheets file
note that the icons also vary depending
upon what type of file it is if you have
a lot of files you want to convert to a
Google format you can change the
settings to make converting files
automatic when you upload them to do
this locate and select the gear icon
near the upper right corner select
settings then check the box for convert
uploaded files to Google Docs editor
format when you're finished click done
all right those are the basics and they
should be enough to help you get started
with uploading files and folders to
Google Drive
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