Google Drive – Getting Started
Here’s a quick overview of how to
- Find Google Drive
- Create stuff
- Deal with shared items
1. Getting into Google Drive
Getting into Google Drive
Once you’re logged into Google somewhere (e.g. Gmail) you’ll see the 9-square icon up the top right.
Click on that to bring down the list of other Google Apps
Select Drive
Alternatively you can visit https://drive.google.com to go directly to Google Drive
The New men
2. Creating new items
Once you’re in drive you’ll see the big red New button – click on that.
From there you can create folders, documents and spreadsheets (and a range of other apps you can add to Google Drive later).
3. Finding Shared Items
One reason you might be getting into Google Drive is to retrieve a document or folder someone has already shared with you.
You can find these under the “Incoming” folder – but it’s best to move these under “My Drive” so you can put them alongside your own
material.
The Incoming folder
Click the Incoming folder and you’ll see a list of items that have been shared with you.
To add one of these to My Drive simply right-click the file or folder you want, and select “Add to My Drive”.
Click OK or select a folder you’d like to move it into.
