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Google Drive's free cloud storage
service allows you to upload files from

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your computer and access them from
anywhere.

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To upload a file, click the New button

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then select File Upload.

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A dialog box will appear. You can locate
and select the file on your computer

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then click Open.

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The file will be uploaded to your Google
Drive.

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If you're looking for a faster method, you can also click and drag files right into your

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browser window to upload.

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And if you're using the Google Chrome
web browser, you can actually upload

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entire folders of files at once. This
can help you save time if you want to

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put a lot of files onto your Google
Drive at once.

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Do note that you'll only be able to
upload folders to Drive if you're using

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the Google Chrome web browser.

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Google Drive also allows you to preview
and edit many different types of files,

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even if you don't have the software for
that file on your computer.

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For example, let's take a look at this
spreadsheet I uploaded that was

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originally created in Microsoft Excel.
You can just double click the file to

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open it, and a preview of the file will
appear.

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Now if you want to edit the file, select

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Open at the top of the screen.

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A new version of the file will be
created in a Google Drive format.

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Do keep in mind that when converting a
file to Google Drive format, you might

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see some issues especially with
formatting.

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Still all my data are here and it's
easy to edit them.

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If we go back to our Google Drive, we can see that there are now two versions of this spreadsheet:

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the original spreadsheet that was created in Excel,

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and the new Google Drive file.

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Note that the icons also vary depending
on what type of file it is.

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Finally, if you're planning on using
Google Drive for editing a lot of

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documents, you may not want to have to
convert each one manually. If you prefer,

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certain files can be converted to Google
Drive format automatically on upload.

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To do this, select the Gear icon
near the upper-right corner,

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select Settings,

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then check the box for Convert uploaded
files to Google Docs editor format.

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When you're finished, click Done

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Alright!

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Those are the basics, and they should be

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enough to help you get started with
uploading files and folders to Google Drive.