Tuesday Tech Bits!

Uploading Microsoft Docs and Slides to Your Google Drive:

Many people use Microsoft Office products like Word and Powerpoint to create docs. Then they use their Google Drive as a storage place for those Word and PPT files.  This is understandable, but takes away some of the best reasons for using your Google Drive- to share and enable collaboration with others! 

 So, here is how you can upload your Word document (or Powerpoint presentation), but also enable the features to make it collaborative, so that others could comment or edit, if you choose to allow them to!  It also is great to do this if you want to use the document or presentation in Google Classroom, so you can allow each student can have their own copy of what you have created.

1.  Open your Google Drive.

2.  Click on the "Settings" icon on the far right, and choose "Setttings."

3. Check the box to indicate that you want the format to be Google format and click "Done."

4.  Now, when you want to upload a Word doc or Powerpoint presentation, it will be uploaded as an editable Google Doc or Presentation.  You do this by clicking the blue "New" button and choosing "Upload file."  Your file will convert automatically, sometimes with some minor changes.

Best of all, you can now share this with others and collaborate to get the best doc or presentation, without emailing copies back and forth, or storing everything on a USB stick.

You can also share to Google Classroom using "each student gets a copy."