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Instant Google Drive Starter
What can you do with Google Drive?
Working with les in the cloud is a little bit dierent from what you may be used to, but it is
much more convenient. You can edit your les from anywhere and you can share and collaborate
on les with other people. Importantly, your les in the cloud are safe if there is ever a problem
with your hard drive. Here are some examples to give you an idea of the things you can do with
Google Drive:
Ê Create a presentation: Let's say you need to make a presentation. You create a
new Google Slides presentation in Google Drive, get a rough draft of the slides in a
reasonable shape, and share it with your co-worker. (With Google Drive, there is no
need to e-mail versions of les around.) Your co-worker makes a few comments on your
slides, and you make the recommended changes. Once you've given the presentation,
you share it publicly so everyone has access to the slides afterwards.
Ê Write a report as a group project: Your teacher or boss has tasked you with creating a
report for a work or school project. The data is collected in a Google Sheets spreadsheet,
with each person in the team adding their own data. They can even enter data using their
phone or tablet, and with Google Drive, everyone can edit the spreadsheet at the same
time—there is only one copy of the spreadsheet to keep up to date. Next, the entire team
collaborates on the report, using Google Docs, with each person writing a section. And
when you're done, you can convert it to a PDF le and share it with your boss or teacher
for their review.
Ê Work with Microsoft Oce documents: Let's say a company that you work with uses
Microsoft Oce, and sends you a Microsoft Word document. You upload the document
to a shared folder on Google Drive, where you and a co-worker review it and make a
few changes to the shared copy. When done, you e-mail the revised version back to
the person who sent it to you as an attachment, all directly from Google Drive.
Ê Upload and share vacation videos: You just got back from vacation, and are eager to
share videos of you learning to ski with your family. The videos are too large to e-mail.
So instead you upload the videos from your camera's memory card into a new folder in
Google Drive, and then share that folder with a few of your family members. They get
an e-mail notication, click on the link in the folder, and are able to enjoy the moment
when you got up on two skis for the rst time. They can view the videos and photos
right on their phone or tablet.
Ê Keep a backup of your important les: You have several years of irreplaceable family
photos, school projects, and home business records stored on your computer's hard
drive. Because hard drives can fail, you want to back these les up. So you download
and install the Google Drive sync program, which then automatically uploads and
syncs les and folders of your choice to the cloud. If something ever happens to your
computer, your cloud backup is there for you in Google Drive.