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How to Customize Google Forms With Themes, Images, and Fonts

Google Forms is the easiest way to make a fillable form online. Most Google Forms look similar, but you can make your form stand out and fit with your event, website, or company’s branding.

Vann Vicente Mar 27th, 2020

How to Use the Google Drive Progressive Web App

With Google moving from Chrome apps, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) seem to be rapidly replacing them. YouTube Music, Google Maps, and Google Photos have all joined the ranks, and now Google Drive is on the list as well….

Brady Gavin Feb 10th, 2020

How to Set Up and Use Google Drive on Your Mac

While Apple users can easily use the iCloud storage service, it comes with only 5 GB of free storage. Rather than paying extra, you could switch to using Google Drive on your Mac, giving you extra space and tools in the proce…

Ben Stockton Jan 23rd, 2020

How to Change the Owner of a File in Google Drive

By default, you’re the owner of any file you upload or create on Google Drive. However, if you want to transfer ownership of a file to someone else, it’s an easy process. Here’s how.

Brady Gavin Jan 17th, 2020

How to Use rclone to Back Up to Google Drive on Linux

There’s still no official Linux client for Google Drive, but you can back up to your Google Drive using the rclone utility right from the command line. We show you how.

Dave McKay Jan 10th, 2020

How to Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

While you can access Gmail attachments by opening the related message deep within Google’s client, it’s not very convenient. You need a central location to access saved documents and images. This guide shows you how to save G…

Kevin Parrish Nov 21st, 2019

How to Assign Tasks in Google Drive

When collaborating on files in Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, and Slides), it’s easy to lose sight of who’s working on specific parts of a project. With Google Drive, you can assign tasks to another collaborator on your team….

Brady Gavin Oct 17th, 2019

How to Merge Multiple Google Drive and Google Photos Accounts

It isn’t possible to merge Google accounts directly, making it tricky to move your data from A to B. If you want to merge data across multiple Google Drive and Google Photos accounts, here’s how you do it….

Ben Stockton Oct 2nd, 2019

How to Quickly Search Google Drive

If you haven’t gotten around to organizing your Google Drive and need to find something in a hurry, you might have difficulty finding a particular file. Here’s how to quickly search Google Drive.

Brady Gavin Sep 12th, 2019

How to Organize Your Google Drive

Over time, with some neglect and potential laziness, your Google Drive can accrue tons of files and become a mess to find anything. Here’s how to organize your Drive to find everything fast and make sure it stays in order….

Brady Gavin Aug 12th, 2019

How to Copy Google Drive Folders

If you need to copy a Google Drive folder from a web browser, Google doesn’t make it easy for you. But you can use a workaround or download the desktop app for a more streamlined approach.

Brady Gavin Aug 5th, 2019

Google Drive and Photos Are Splitting: What You Need to Know

Google has announced that Google Drive and Google Photos will be separating in July. Google says, “the connection between these services is confusing,” so it’s making some changes to “simplify the experience.” Here’s what tha…

Chris Hoffman Jun 14th, 2019

How To Back Up and Restore Your WhatsApp Messages with Google Drive

WhatsApp is a great way to stay in touch with your loved ones, but you don’t want to lose all the conversations when you change phones. It’s super easy to back up your messages right from WhatsApp. Here’s the skinny….

Tom Westrick Mar 21st, 2019

[Updated] Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming

Google Drive has a pretty bad spam problem, and it seems Google doesn’t care. Spammers can share files that automatically appear in your Drive, and there’s no way to stop it.

Cameron Summerson Jan 4th, 2019

How to Attach Files to Google Calendar Events

Google Calendar Events are a great way to organize meetings, but no meeting is complete without a slideshow, spreadsheet, pictures, or reports. Fortunately, you can easily attach anything from your Google Drive or your local …

Brady Gavin Nov 30th, 2018

How to Set an Expiration Date When Sharing Files on Google Drive

Sharing a file from Google Drive is a great way to let clients and contractors access documents without having them to download them. If you only want people to have temporary access to files, you can set an automatic expira…

Brady Gavin Nov 21st, 2018

How to Disable the “Quick Access” Shortcuts in Google Drive

Recently, Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive that makes it easier to quickly access recently-opened or recently-edited files by displaying them at the top of the Google Drive page. However, if you want to disable…

Craig Lloyd Aug 11th, 2017

How to Sync Your Desktop PC with Google Drive (and Google Photos)

Google has been doing its part to make sure everyone has a backup of important data, and it even offers a desktop client for Google Drive. Here’s everything you need to know about how to set up Google Drive for Desktop on you…

Nick Lewis Jul 21st, 2017

How to Search Google Drive Directly from Chrome’s Address Bar

While Google Drive has an excellent search built into the site, did you know there’s an easier, quicker way to execute a Drive search directly from Chrome’s address bar (the omnibox)? Setting it up is a snap, and using it is …

Cameron Summerson Apr 10th, 2017

How to Create Shareable Download Links for Files on Google Drive

Google Drive is great—you can access your files from anywhere, on pretty much any device, and sync them between your computers. But there’s also another great feature: sharing. If you have a file that someone needs, it’s …

Cameron Summerson Mar 29th, 2017

How to Use Google Drive on Linux

When Google introduced Google Drive in April 24, 2012, they promised Linux support “coming soon.” That was nearly five years ago. Google still hasn’t released an official version of Google Drive for Linux, but there are oth…

Chris Hoffman Feb 2nd, 2017

How to Download Files and Webpages Directly to Google Drive in Chrome

We’ve all downloaded files from the web to our computer. However, if you’d rather download files directly to your Google Drive account, there’s an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to do just that….

Lori Kaufman Dec 22nd, 2016

How to Back Up Your Text Messages to Dropbox or Google Drive on Android

You never know when you’re going to need to reference an old text message with an important bit of info, and the easiest way to make sure you never lose anything is by backing up. Fortunately, pushing all of your Android ph…

Cameron Summerson Oct 3rd, 2016

How to Update a Shared File in Google Drive Without Changing the Shareable Link

When you upload a new version of a shared file to Google Drive, the old file is not replaced, since Google Drive lets you have multiple files with the same name. That means that the newly uploaded file will have a different …

Lori Kaufman Jul 1st, 2016

How to Work with Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive

Microsoft Office files are still very common, but if you’re more of a Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides user, you can still edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Google Drive–if you know how.

Lori Kaufman May 13th, 2016

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