Google Drive
Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks
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Priorities Help you Stay on Track
The priority page allows you to access the files you need through a combination of suggestion and work spaces. The prioritized files are the documents that Google thinks are most relevant to you. For example, Google will let you know if Forms have new submissions and if Docs have new comments. It will also pull up files that you open regularly at that time of the day or week. On each document, you can take action without having to navigate through folders to get to the document.
Workspaces help you Categorize
Google will suggest work that it thinks is a part of the same project or tasks. You can easily add these files to workspaces so that you can collect content and access it quickly and easily. To add a file to a workspace, enter into your drive and right-click the file and select Add to Workspace. There is a limit of 25 files per workspace.
Narrow Down your Search
Do you have trouble remembering where everything lives in Drive or finding the exact document you need when you search? Use the advanced search features to search by a specific type of file (Slide, Sheet, video) or a specific owner (you or a teammate). You can also search by people it's shared with, words in the title, and date modified.
Find all the Drive Shortcuts
In Google Drive press Ctrl and / on a PC or Command and / on a Mac. Once you do, you will see a list of shortcuts that are relevant to the part of Drive that you are in.
Star It
Find important files or folders quickly so that you can find them later! When you star a file, it is also added to the Starred menu in the left-hand folder navigation of your drive. You can star a file by right clicking on it in Drive and selecting "Add to Starred" or by opening the file and clicking small star next to the title of the document. You can unstar files the same way to remove them from your starred section of Drive. It's helpful to clean out your starred content each school year.