Bragto U: Uploading to Google Docs

Bragto University
Class: DOCS 101 Uploading to Google Docs

Objective:  On your hard drive, you have thousands of documents.  You have spent thousand of hours on those documents.  Now the push is for "cloud computing", and you would like to foray into that new world.  But what about those documents you have created.  What about them?  You can upload them to Google Docs!

Prerequsites:

1. None!

Materials:

• Google Docs Account

Procedure:

Google Docs will gladly accept any file you want to upload... but to edit it online, it will only accept certain files.

There are quite a few options of what Google will let you edit.  But to edit the file online, the uploaded file needs to be either a document, spreadsheet or presentation.  If you upload with the option of "Convert ... to corresponding formats." unchecked, Google Docs will upload it but will require you to download it to edit it.[gallery link="file" columns="2"]

Next select the file or files that you would like to upload.  Click upload.  You have the option of selecting the destination of your uploaded documents to put them into a specific folder.  You also can set the privacy of said document on the bottom, by default it is set to "private".

Complete!