Google DRIVE Tutorials

In this post, we’re going to look at moving folders from My Drive to a Shared Drive both for a Google Workspace account and a personal Gmail account How to move a folder to a Shared Drive with a Workspace account Here, I have a folder on My Drive in my Workspace account. I want… Continue reading How to move a folder to a Shared Drive

In this post, we’re going to look at the new Home page in Google Drive. This was introduced as a way to find files and folders quickly. New Home page The Home page is found above My Drive. It shows you files that Drive thinks you’ll want to use. This is based on various criteria… Continue reading The new Home in Google Drive

In this post, we’re going to look at how to use the scanner in the Google Drive app. It’s quick and easy to use and available to both Android and iOS. How to scan using the Drive app scanner Click on the Drive app on your phone. Tap the document icon to open the scanner.… Continue reading How to scan with the Drive app on your phone

In a bustling year of developments, the Google Workspace team introduced numerous new features and improvements across their suite of apps. Here’s a concise summary of my top picks that affected Sheets, Docs, Drive, and the new AI Bard. Sheets New functions Another 11 brand-new functions were added to Sheets, including LET, TOROW, TOCOL, WRAPROWS,… Continue reading Summary of Google Workspace 2023 new features (Pt 1)

In this post, we’re going to look at several useful Google URL tricks which allow us to quickly do a whole range of things, like quickly create documents, provide links to copy master templates, and from a link automatically download a PDF version of a document, and many more. We’re going to look at….. Useful… Continue reading Learn useful Google URL tricks to make your online easier

One of my favourites features of a Google Workspace account is Shared Drives. In this post, we’re going to look at what they are, how to use them and how they differ from My Drive. What is a Shared drive? A Shared Drive lives in your Google Drive and is an addition to your normal… Continue reading How to use Shared Drives

What’s different in Google Workspace to a free Gmail account? This post will show you some of the differences between a paid Google Workspace account and a free personal Gmail account and quite often Google Workspace users aren’t aware of some of the extra features Workspace offers, so let’s have a look some of them… Continue reading What’s the difference between a Google Workspace and a free Gmail account?

Making multiple copies of folders in Google Drive is a slow, boring task. You select the folder you want, make a copy, then have to rename it, then repeat this again and again. Here you’ll learn how to create multiple folders and name them individually, really fast using Apps Script. If you’ve already read my post “Multiple… Continue reading Multiple FOLDER maker

Making multiple copies in Google Drive is a slow, boring task. You select the file you want, make a copy, then have to rename it, then repeat this again and again. Here you’ll learn how to make multiple copies of a file and name them individually, really fast using Apps Script. First, we have a… Continue reading Multiple FILE Maker

You may have hundreds of files on your Google Drive, but if you’re like me, you end up only using certain ones all the time. Drive has a couple of options to help you get to those files or folders quickly. 1) Starring them; 2) Using Quick Access which predicts what files you will need.… Continue reading Google Drive – Quick access to your files

Sometimes you want to share your file or folder but not via the normal way of sharing within Google Apps. For example, you may want to add a link to your file on a webpage, or in an email using something like Outlook. Fortunately, this is really easy to do. Sharing the link to a… Continue reading Google Drive – Getting the link to your file so you can share it

Sometimes you need a copy of your files in a place other than your Drive.  Google Drive provides some options to do this, each one depending on what it is that you’re downloading. Downloading non-Google files e.g. Word docs, PDFs, mp3s, images) Right click on the file you want.  Then click on “Download” from the menu. This… Continue reading Google Drive – Downloading your files & folders

By default, all your folders are a lovely shade of grey. Not the most exciting colour, but that can easily be changed and is useful for quickly identifying the folder you want. 1) Right click on the folder you want to change.  This brings up the menu. Click on “Change colour”. 2) This opens the… Continue reading Google Drive – Folders: 50 shades of grey

Life is less lonely if you share stuff.  Well, it’s the same with files and folders on Google Drive! Once you’ve created something often you want to share it with someone, a team, a class or even the whole world, and Google Drive allows you to do just this. Before looking at how it’s done,… Continue reading Google Drive – Sharing files and folders

In this post, we’ll see the different ways you can move multiple files and folders around on your Drive. Click on the first file you want to move, then hold down Ctrl (or Cmd) and then click on the other files you want to move.  The ones that you have chosen will be highlighted in… Continue reading Google Drive – Moving multiple files & folders

You’ve got into Google Drive, now you need some files and folders to store in it.  Let’s go through the most common actions you do with files and folders: creating, naming, copying, and deleting.  ‘Moving’ I will cover in a different post as there are different ways to do this. Creating a file As an… Continue reading Google Drive (6) – How to manage files and folders

In this post, I’m going to explain what Google Drive is and give you an overview of how it works. When you log into Google Drive, your computer connects to the place where your files are stored.  This is ‘in the cloud’ which is actually a physical storage place somewhere in the world, in this… Continue reading Google Drive (5) – How does it work?

At the top of the screen is the search bar and account options. Search bar It’s no surprise that Google includes a powerful search engine so you can find your files, without having to hunt for them via the folders.  Just type in the words you want and press Enter.  Google will search for filenames… Continue reading Google Drive – The menus (part 3)

In this post, I’ll briefly go through the options on the bar above the files and folders area. The bar above the files and folders area, contains some more Drive options and also where you can find the location of a file of folder, via the breadcrumbs. Without a file or folder selected, you’ll see four… Continue reading Google Drive – The menus (part 2)

Once you’ve logged in to your account and clicked on Drive, you’ll be presented with the main Drive page. There are 4 main areas: 1) In the middle is where you will see your files and folders. 2) On the left, you have some Drive options and filters. 3) On the bar, there are more… Continue reading Google Drive – The menus (part 1)

You’ve got a Google account, so how do you access your Google Drive and its contents? 3. Type in your username, i.e. the part before “@gmail.com” in your Gmail address.  E.g. brgablog@gmail.com > type in: brgablog  Press “Next”. 4. This takes you to the password screen.  Type in your password and click “Sign In”. 5.… Continue reading Google Drive – How to access it

You’ll need a Google account to access the Google Apps.  Below are step-by-step instructions on how set one up. Go to the Google account set up page. Fill in the form with your details: name your new email address (username+@gmail.com) password your birthday gender phone number (security code may get sent to here) your current… Continue reading How to set up a Google Account