Uploading files involves copying files from a computer's hard drive to Google Docs storage in the cloud. Downloading is the reverse - copying files from Google Docs in the cloud to a computer's hard drive. Users can upload files in any format but can only convert certain formats to Google Docs format. Files can be downloaded from within a document or from the main Google Docs window, and different file formats are supported for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

1. Google Docs
Uploading & Downloading Files

2. Uploading vs Downloading
Uploading is copying files from your computer’s hard drive
to the “cloud” …Google Docs
Downloading is copying files from the “cloud”…Google
Docs to your computer’s hard drive
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3. Uploading Files
You can upload and STORE any file format, but you can
convert only certain types of files into Google Docs format

4. 1. Click Upload
2. Click Select files to upload
Note: If you want to
convert your files to a
Google Docs format, 3. Choose a destination folder
make sure this option is
selected.
4. Click Start upload

5. Selecting Files to Upload
When you click on Select files to upload, a window will open for you to
navigate to the files you wish to upload.
Navigate to files on a Mac: Navigate to files in Windows:
Select your file and click Select Select your file and click Open

6. Downloading Files
You can download a document from Google Docs to your computer two ways – from the main Docs window or from inside a
document. Before you download your file, it is important to know file formats that are supported:
For documents: Here are the supported file types for documents:
HTML
RTF Note: Downloading is
Word also referred to as
Open Office exporting
PDF
Text
For spreadsheets:
CSV
HTML
ODS
PDF
XLS
TXT: only for a single sheet
Note: it's not possible to export a spreadsheet as .xlsx.
For presentations:
PDF
PPT
Text
For drawings:
You can export your drawing as a PDF, PNG, or SVG file by clicking Edit > Export from the drawing toolbar.

7. Downloading files from Inside the document window
From the File menu, choose Download
as…and select the file format you want
to convert to
Note: when you choose Download, your file
will download to your hard drive into the
download location set by your browser.

8. Downloading files from Google Docs Main Window
1. Select the file to download 2. From More actions, choose Export

9. 3. Select the file format you would like
4. Click Download
Note: when you click Download,
your file will download to your hard
drive into the download location set
by your browser.

10. Use the Export feature from the main Google Docs
window when you have several files…of any file format
File formats selected: Doc, Presentation,
Drawing
Convert and Download lets you change file formats
in one window and shows you how many of each
you will be downloading.