Melinda Holt: This is the Bitly link that I sent out, or gave you all last week, if you were here last week. If you weren't here last week, this is new to you. So there are two capital letters. And there's one number.

You'll see those in different colors-- B-I-T dot L-Y slash docs 2See. What it is an e-book. And we're going to be going over the steps that are in this e-book. So you're actually going to get some hands-on while we're doing it. That makes sense.

Now, this is under Creative Commons. So when you do open it up, you're going to see this. You're not going to see any File, Edit, View. I'm using my spacebar to go to the next slides. You can also use your arrow keys to go back, if you wish.

This is an e-book. This is stuck in time. Or no, this is dynamic. This is dynamic. So that means-- and it just happened last night. That means, when I update it, you get the updated version.

So if you're using the same link that you used last week, and you're like, well, it doesn't look different to me, yes, it does. This was added just last night-- convert. And that meant that the table of contents changed a little bit. This was added last week.

So those of you that are asking for a version that you can share with people, this is actually stuck in time. This PDF version was from last week. So it doesn't have this conversion area in it yet. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create another PDF, probably keep the old one. And I'll date it with June 8.

Then there will be another PDF link here dated June-- what is today-- the 16th. So you'll be able to download whichever PDF version you want. Now, most people want the most recent. But some people want to go back in time. So I'm allowing for both of that.

So this e-book that you're looking at is dynamic. I'm always adding to it. I'm always updating. I'm going to be adding some more menu items and stuff to it. So you'll always be up to date if you use that Bitly link.

If you use the PDF version, that's fine. But those are stuck in time. And I will timestamp them so you know what time they're stuck with.

This is me. My name is Melinda Holt. I'm a PS2 technology integration. OTAN is housed at the Sacramento County Office of Education. OTAN is a leadership project for California. And we get to do all kinds of cool stuff with adult education, mainly teaching teachers how to use technology in their classroom, or for their programs.

I am a Google-certified educator, level two. I've been a certified trainer for four years, five years, something like that. I'm also a certified admin for Google. So I know Google backwards and forwards.

So if you have any questions about Google, or maybe even the backend-- maybe you have your administrator giving you one story, and you want to check to make sure it's true. And if there's any administrators in the house, I say this with love. Sometimes, people just don't know that there's a special little checkbox on the backend that they could click and allow other people to do things.

So check with me. If you think, oh, man, that doesn't really sound right, ask Melinda. Hey, I might know. And if I don't, I might be able to find the answer for you.

This is how to use the deck. I've already gone over that a little bit. There's a table of contents, which I'll be showing you in a sec. And again, this deck is being updated. There's going to be a PDF version that's stuck in time.

Here's the agenda. We're going to do-- we just did a brief overview on how to use the hand-out. Discussion of Docs and uses-- let's go back in time to yesterday, or last week. So those of you that were there, you know that it was fast. I tried to get through all of this, instead of just taking one little chunk at a time, which is what I originally planned.

I originally planned to just do maybe two or three sections, and then we'd go over the next part the next time. So this is part of the Google Docs series. We're just doing Google Docs here. So last week was a quick overview. Let's just rename it. It was a quick overview of Docs.

This week, we're actually going to be diving in and doing more with less. So you're actually going to get more hands-on. It's not going to be so fast. We're not going to be running out of time. And wherever we stop this week, that's where we're going to pick up next week.

So as you go through, you're going to be learning about Docs. The great thing about learning about Docs is that most of the stuff that you learn here you can carry into Slides and Sheets. So when we get to a slide that says App Site Docs-- let's go here.

I'm going to go to App Site Docs. So it says, Create New from App Site. And it's telling you how to get to the docs.google.com site. All you have to do is substitute the word sheets or the word slides where you see docs. And it's the same thing.

That's not to say that the slides deck that I've created on Slides is exactly the same. It's not. There are things that are different between Slides and Docs. But a lot of it is the same.

So if you learn this base, this baseline on Docs, you're going to be able to carry that information into Slides and Sheets-- and probably Forms, and a little bit into Drawings, too. On this handout, you're going to see TOC in the upper right-hand corner of all of the pages. When you click on it, it will take you back to the table of contents.

Alrighty, so we covered, last week-- we had some terms, went over some terms. All of these have to do with Docs. We went over G Suites, the club versus the pub. We went through the icons.

This is a really good-- especially on the PDF. You can print that out and give it to your students so they know what these arrows mean, the undo and the redo. There's a print, the painter, or the format painter right there. And then we went into how to create new docs.

So this is going to be a quick overview right here. You can create a new doc many different ways. So if you're already signed into your account, you can create a new doc by going to .drive.google.com.

As soon as the new document shows up, you should title it. And I always title mine Deletedo so I know to go back and delete it. As soon as you type something, it is saving.

Do you see that? I'm going to-- just right here. It's really, really small, up at the top of my screen. And I can't make it bigger for you. Otherwise, I would. But it's saving. And it's telling me it's saving it to the cloud.

So here's the document status right here. They just added this a few weeks ago. So you can hit Control-S. It does absolutely nothing but make you feel better. But hey, it saves by itself. You don't have to turn it on or turn it off. It's always on.

After you create a new document-- lots of different ways. The app site, docs.google.com, you could go there. And they have templates that are ready for you. Again, we covered this last week. So when the video gets up, you guys can watch it. Or you can just read this. Read the e-book.

Here's .new. We already went over that. Creating new from template-- there is an option when you go to Drive, and most people don't know this. I'm going to go to Drive. And when you hit the New button, you have Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Now, most people just click these, and they move on. They don't see these arrows off to the side. When you select those arrows, or when you hover over the arrow, you'll see blank document, which is the same as clicking on Google Docs. But you also see from a template.

So if you were on the drive, and you didn't want to go to docs.google.com-- I don't know what the reasoning would be-- but you can hit from a template. And then the templates gallery will come up. These are the same templates that you would get when you go to docs.google.com.

Upload-- this is where we're going to start having some fun right now. You can upload using the New button and Drive. So you upload a file using New. You click on the New button.

You're going to have a little icon. It looks like a little file with an arrow going up. That's called Upload. And then you would upload any document that you want into Drive.

So when you upload a Word file-- because that's equivalent to Docs. When you upload a Word file, you'll see a little W off to the side. That means it's a Word file. So I'm going to open up my drive.

Now, you might have to look here, unless you have some Word docs-- oops-- in your drive that you could look at. I'm actually going to go look at some Word documents. You know what? I'm going to do better than that.

Let's go ahead and upload a Word document. If you have one on your desktop, or if you have one on your laptop-- if you have a tablet, you might have a Word document. I don't know. If you're following along on a phone, forget about it. Just watch.

So I'm going to go to New. I'm hitting on the New button. And then I'm going to go to File Upload. And then I'm going to go to-- somewhere here, I had an Office. Here we go, Office Files.

So I have Office Files. So I'm going to open that. And I got all kinds of Office files here. They're all in Microsoft format, because they were created with Microsoft. So here's one called Resume. So I want to upload that. I'm going to click on it. And I'm going to open.

Now, because I was on my drive at the top level, it's going to go at my drive level. When you do that, you're going to get this little-- I call it an upload box in the bottom right-hand corner. Now, some files take longer to upload, because they're bigger. This one is really small.

Don't do anything until you see this little green checkmark. If you don't see a green checkmark after you've uploaded, it means it's still trying to do it. So give it time. Relax. Breathe. Yeah?

Now, something else that you may not know is after that little green checkmark is there, it toggles back and forth from a green check to a folder. So if you've done this, and you've got the green check right now, just hover over the green check. And it should turn into a folder. Or maybe if you go away and come back-- there we go. It's going back and forth. So this is going to show me exactly where that file is.

Why do I need to know that? I already know it went in my drive. Yeah, but maybe you were three folders down when you decided you wanted that new document. And you uploaded it. And then you went back to my drive to find it, and you couldn't, because you can't remember where you put it.

So this is a quick and easy way to find it. You just hit that folder. And because I had it on my drive, it went there. But right here, it's telling me exactly where it is.

Now, this little box-- you can actually close it. There's an X right above the green check. So I'm going to go ahead and close that now. Here is my new document. Let me zoom in a little bit.

And you can see the difference between a Google Doc-- it's a blue icon with three little white lines on it. And then the Microsoft Word is a blue box with the W. Well, so I've uploaded a Microsoft Word document. Can I edit it? Yes, you can.

So what we're going to do is we're going to do something called Open With. Open With-- there's two ways to do Open With. The first way is to right click on the document itself. So the document is highlighted. I click once on it, not twice.

Click once on it, and then I right click. And I will see Open With up at the top. Now, I have a few other little gidgets and gadgets on my Google Drive. So that's why I have different things here. But I do see Google Docs.

So I can click on Google Docs. Now, that's one way. And it will open. I'm going to show you the other way to open it. You're actually going to double click on it, just like you would if you were opening it.

And then you're looking at this with the black lines all the way around it and the black frame. You're going, you told me I could edit. Well, we still need to open with. So when you open something up that's in Microsoft format, you should see the Open With option up at the top of the screen in the black frame.

I'm going to hit the arrow next to it. And there are my options. So I'm going to select Google Docs. Remember, I could have right clicked. But here's the important part. You have to wait for the magic, because what Google's doing is going,

OK, you want this to be in Microsoft. OK, we've got to put in on all the coding and everything. All right, here we go. Here we go. OK, boom, here you go. So here's that document. And now I can edit it-- skills for me. Oh, it helps if you type it right-- for me.

All right, so there we go. So the formatting took place. Everything should transfer over exactly the way it did. Or exactly the way it looked in Microsoft, it should look in Google.

Are some things going to be different? Absolutely. Absolutely, because there are some fonts that Microsoft uses that Google has no clue what they are. So it matches as close as it can.

It might be that your pictures might be a little out of whack. But to date, every Microsoft document that I've opened has had very little problems in keeping its format. If you followed along, when you're looking at the top of your screen, the title, you should see something that says .docx. And when I hover over it, you can see that it says Microsoft Word format.

This is not a Google Doc. This is not a Google Doc. This is still a Microsoft document. What Google is allowing me to do is to edit this document.

Now, do I have to save a Microsoft document when it's my Google Drive? No, it's already saved. It's already saved. So I can see the changes if I click on that little cloud and it says, all changes are saved, everything's done, I'm good to go. So now I can actually just close this and go back to my drive or go back to whatever

Yeah, I'm going to go back. That was opening a new window. So here's my document. It's still Microsoft Word. And look at the date-time stamp-- 9:35. That's about when I opened it. And all of the changes are there.

Why would you want to convert this to Google if you can edit in Microsoft? This is why, right here. So right here-- 328 kilobytes. And that is actually-- I have done nothing to this document. All I did was go in and get a template from Microsoft. 328 K sounds small, but it's actually pretty big. And all of this adds up. All of this adds up.

So why do you want to do a Google format? Well, let's look at this document on my drive right here. It's a Google Doc. How much file space is it taking? How much storage is it taking? Zero.

Would you be able to keep two versions of the document, Word and Docs? Absotootly. But why would you want to do that? [laughs] Gloria, yes, you can absolutely keep your Microsoft. And you could also convert one of them to a Google Doc, which is what is in the handout and what I'm going to show you coming up.

So that is how you can upload a Microsoft file. And that is how you can edit a Microsoft file. So upload is really, really cool.

There's another way to do an upload. I'm going to make my screen just a little bit smaller. And actually, what I'm going to show you next-- it's how a file can be uploaded beyond the New button. So I'm not going to use the New button to do it this time. I'm going to use a drag method.

So on my desktop, here's a folder full of files. And they're all Microsoft files. There's a CSV. There's Docs. And there's a PowerPoint. So what if I want all of these files in my drive? Do I have to do the New button and upload each one of them separately? Or do I have to go to New Folder Upload and then get it in that way?

No. What you can do-- again, I could do it just by the file, or use the same method with the folder. I'm going to click. I'm holding that file. I'm holding down my left button, and I'm dragging it into my drive.

And when my drive detects it-- ooh, you see I get the green plus? And my drive highlights. The whole drive is highlighting now. Now I'm getting the upload box. And it's telling me, office file six of six.

When it first started, it was zero of six, and one of six, and two, three, four, five, six. So bada bing, bad boom, now I've got all six files. I'm going to hit that Folder button just to figure out where the heck I put it. And here it is. When I open it, they are all Microsoft Word files.

Now, if you were paying close attention, over here on my desktop, there are five files. I have an extra one. What? Yes. You have an extra one. It's called .ds_store.

This is Google's way of noting-- well, actually, this is the folder code on Microsoft. And look, it's 6K right here. So what I do after I upload a folder is I will select the-- it's always .ds_store. I select it, and then I trash it. You don't need it.

So how do you move docs between Google accounts? Aha. So if I have a Google doc on my Drive, and I want to move it between accounts, what I will do is share it with myself. So let's say this presentation-- I want to share it with my work self. This is my personal self, and I want to share it with my work self-- so self one, and self two.

So a couple of ways to do it. I usually do the right click. If I just want to share it, I don't want to edit it or anything, I'll just do the right click. And I will go to Share. Or I will select the file in my drive. It's highlighted. And then the Share button also appears at the top of the screen.

So I'm going to click that Share button-- either way, right click. You could also open it and go to the Share button. Some of you might be seeing a different share window than I do right now. Google's in the process of releasing this new share to the world. And it hasn't gotten to all the club accounts yet.

So if you're in a school Google, then you might not see this. You might see the old share. It works the same. What you need to do is add the person that you want to share this with. And here I am. This is my work self.

You need to give that person editor rights, because you're probably going to want yourself to be able to edit, unless you don't like yourself, and then that's not a good thing, isn't it? So give yourself edit rights. You can also notify the people. So you'll get an email to your other email.

This is getting a little confusing. So self two is going to get an email from self one that-- here's the doc, or here's the PowerPoint. I usually also check the settings gear while I'm here just to make sure that-- yes, editors can change permissions, because with self two-- this is self one sharing it.

But self two is going to need to be able to change permissions. So I just back check, make sure it's there. And then I'll hit Send.

Now, my SCOE work self, my self two, will have gotten a message that I have this PowerPoint in my shared-with-me area. Now, here's where it's going to get a little sticky, because now you're going to want to know, well, who owns the document?

In this instance, I am on the pub. I'm on the pub. And I just shared a document with the club, With the G Suite. So self one is pub, self two is club. I cannot switch ownership between the two.

If it was pub to pub, you can share ownership. You can actually transfer ownership is what it's called. So if I had a club account, or-- I'm sorry. If I had a pub account, and I shared with another pub account, I could transfer the ownership to that person.

So sharing between accounts is doable pub to pub, club to club. And the club has to be on the same domain. And then you can transfer ownership. You cannot transfer ownership between pub and club.

However, because I went to the Share on this document, and I went to the gear, and I checked to make sure that viewers and commoners can see the options to download, print, and copy on this PowerPoint, that means that this self-two person can make a copy. I cannot give this person ownership rights. So right here, it has the option to make an owner. But it won't let me do it, because this club won't allow files from the pub to be owned by someone in the club.

That's hard to wrap your brain around. Just imagine-- pub to pub, club to club. So this is pub to club. Ownership transfer won't work. Club to pub won't work. Pub to club won't work. But pub to pub does work.

So if this was a pub account, then I could go to Make an Owner. And then that file would be transferred to that person. I would still be an editor. Self one would still be an editor. But then the owner would be the other pub person.

With the editor level, can others delete docs? Absolutely. But here's the beauty of it. I own this document. It is mine. No one can delete it from the face of the universe except me, because I am the important one. I am the universe goddess of this document.

So yeah, they can delete it from their drive, which is not-- that's fine. They don't have to have it in their drive. They don't have to have it and share it with me. But then they can't edit it. So then they have to come to you and say, I forgot, and I still needed to add something, could you add me back to the share? And yes, you can do that.

So if the person decides or-- they get a message from you, or they see a document in shared with me that-- what the heck is this for? Click, and then they delete it. And then you come back to him and say, hey, did you get that document? They go, [gasps], uh-oh. Could you share it with me again?

Yes, you can. So can they delete it from the universe? Yes, they can. If you have a shared folder and they delete it from the folder, yeah, that sucks, because everybody else is going to lose it as well. So if you have multiple editors on a folder, and somebody deletes file number one, it's deleted for everybody except you.

So all you have to do is add it back. That's usually the way it works. For every rule, there's something that's going to break it. So 9 times out of 10, you're still going to have the document. Not to worry about it.

Alrighty, so that is-- what's the difference between Share and the link to the doc? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. The Share link is just-- it's just a different way to get the document to somebody. So when I click on this document and I go to the Share, right here, I can get the link. So I can copy that link and send it to the person.

Some people, they don't have a lot of tech skills. So giving them a link is a lot better than telling them, go open your drive, and go to Shared With Me, and look for the document named. And if you can't find it, then do a search, and blah, blah, blah. No, no, no, just send them a link.

So someone who has a little bit-- maybe they don't know Drive that well, or they've never shared a document with anybody before. You might want to start them out with the Get Share link. It's almost exactly the same.

Alrighty, so we've done that. We've done that. And we've actually taken a short break. Can they open a link without a Google account? That is such a good question.

In the old days, the answer was, absolutely not. In the new days, what I think is happening now-- because I've heard about it, I haven't actually experienced it-- is that they will open up the document, and they're asked to put in a password so that they can open the document. So they put in a password, no big deal.

And then, when they do that, what they've actually done is created a Google account without them even knowing about it. So yes, I'm going to-- Gloria, I'm going to say, yes. But I'm not 100% sure.

Can others download and print with the viewer-only access level to prevent deleting with the editor level? Can they download and print? Absolutely, (Inaudible). So let's go back to this document that I've shared with myself. And I'm even going to add somebody else to it, just so you can-- so I'm going to add Marjorie.

Oh, wow, I've never-- really? Here we go. And I'm going to give this person viewer rights. I'm not going to notify that person, because she's sitting right here going, what the heck is she doing? So right here, it's telling me, viewers of this file can see comments and suggestions. That's OK.

And then I'm going to hit Share. All right, so now what I've just done is I've shared the document with two people. On the share on this document, now you can see, I have I'm the owner. SCOE Tech is the owner. Marjorie's been added as a viewer. So there's the important part on sharing Google Docs.

Right here, the gear-- click on it. Because you might want people to view the document but not be able to download, print, or copy. But if you don't mind, then keep that checkbox selected.

If you want to add editors, if you want them to type on the document, if you want them to touch the document but you don't want them to add anybody else-- let's say I add Marjorie as a viewer, because she types too much. I don't want her to type anything. So I just add her as a viewer.

Maybe I add-- I'm just going to look at the Q&A here. I add Sandra as an editor. But Sandra is always inviting people into my documents, and I really don't like that. So what I would do is deselect editors can change permissions and share. That means they can't share with anybody else. Only I can share with other people. Only I, as the owner, can share with people.

So different settings can be put into a Google Doc. Can they open the doc without a Google account if you share it? Can they open a doc without a Google if you share it? No, they cannot. If you add them as a viewer, and they don't have a Google account, they will not be able to share it.

Karen, I see your-- what password? Where do they get it? This happens to me a lot. So Catherine, when somebody shares a document with you, and if you have a Google account, tell them to share it with your Google account, because every time someone shares with you and you're asked for the password, you put in a password.

You put in a password, and then you're able to open up the document. And then the next time somebody else shares with you, Google is going to remember what that password was that you put in. You're actually creating a Google account when you do that. When you put in a password, you're actually creating a Google account.

Now, if Google detects that you have a Google account-- let's say I share something with you, Katherine. And your email address is kbarg@gmail.com, and I share something with you. You can open it up, no problem.

Let's say you don't have a Google account. You have kbarg@hotmail.com. I share a document with you. You click on the link. Google asks you, OK, you have to enter a password to see this document.

So you enter a password, kbarg123. You go in, and you look at the document. The next time I share a document with you, Google is going to expect kbarg@hotmail.com to put in as a password kbarg123, because that was the password you created on that first document. Complicated, isn't it?

So my advice to everybody is to have your students use a Google account. There are ways to use a Google account without actually having @gmail.com. You can actually use an @hotmail.com for a Google account. That is not part of this workshop, but I'll put that in next week's so that we can go over that a little bit.

Dominika, if owner later deletes a doc after sharing it with me, will I still be able to see the doc? Absolutely not. Once I delete this document, it is deleted from everybody, unless they've made a copy. If they've made a copy, I have no authority over it.

I'm going to go to my drive. I've got a lot of folders here. And I'm going to open up my OTAN folder. Or I'm going to click on it. Yeah, come on.

My Wi-Fi's slowing down a little bit. You guys don't experience slow Wi-Fi at all, do you? Oh, come on. There we go, OTAN training.

All right, so let's say here's my form, my attendance survey. Here's my form. Now, if I've already created my folder in my Google Drive, it's going to show up on the far left-hand side if I have the arrow next to my drive pointing down. When it's pointing down, I see all of my folders.

So right here is my form, Attendance Survey. And let's say I want to take this, and I want to put it into my Classroom folder. So I can see all my folders. So all I have to do is click, hold, and drag it into where I see classroom is being highlighted. And then I let it go.

Attendance form has disappeared from this level, from this folder. But it is going to be right here in the Classroom folder where I put it. So that's one way to move folders around. That's one way to move not only folder files, but folders. So I can take this entire folder, and I could drag it anywhere I want into another folder, if I wanted to do that.

On our OTAN, or on my OTAN training-- here we go. Any minute now. Where's my upload? Here we go. Here's a folder here called Office Files. Here's another way.

If I want an entire folder to go into another folder, I can drag the folder into any of these folders on the far left-hand side. Or let's say I want MSO files not converted to be in Office Files. All I have to do is click, hold, and drag, hit down-- oops. Click, hold, and drag it.

Are you going to let me? Here we go. Click, hold, and drag it down into the file that I want. So click, hold, and drag is a really good and fast way to get your files or your folders into another folder.

How do you take a screenshot in Google? You don't, Sandra. You have to have an extension. Or you have to use your laptop or your desktop software on a Mac, which is what I'm using right now.

We have something called Screenshot. If you're using Chrome, I would suggest getting the Awesome Screenshot app-- or extension, rather. And you can take all kinds of different screenshots.

All right, so here are the documents. Oh, look at these. These are already converted. They're already converted. I uploaded the Office Files, this same folder that's on my desktop that's all Microsoft. I uploaded that entire folder for you earlier. And they all stayed Microsoft.

I also uploaded it last night. And when I did, they all converted to Google. And there's no storage here, no storage. How come? Because I had the magic button selected.

So on your drive, up at the top of your screen-- those of you that were here last week, you saw this. It might have gone by really fast, so you might want to look again. On the top of your drive-- you have to do this in Drive. You can't do it in docs.google.com. You can't do it by going to docs.new. You have to be in Drive.

So select the gear up at the top of your screen on the right-hand side. And then select Settings. On the General tab, we're going to have a Convert Uploaded Files to Google Docs. Right now, it's not selected. That's why, when I dragged the folder into my drive just an hour ago, or half an hour ago, nothing converted.

When I select this checkbox and then hit Done, now all of the files or all of the folders that are able to convert will convert. So to prove it to you-- and here's something that I found, folks. Sometimes-- and this is actually in the handout. Sometimes, after you make that conversion on or off, you need to hit Refresh on your screen.

So hit Refresh. And you might have to count to 10 really fast. What that does is that just tells Chrome browser, hey, I made a change. And because we're on slow Wi-Fi right now, you shouldn't have to hit that Refresh button. You shouldn't have to do that.

But you-- sorry, my brain went off to the side there. You shouldn't have to do that. But it does give Google a chance to, [gasps], new setting on slow Wi-Fi. So just hit your Refresh button until you get back to work. And then, after that, you won't have to.

So right here, now I'm going to open this to prove it to you. They're all Microsoft Word documents. I'm going to click, hold, and drag this folder right into here. I'm going to drop it. I'm going to wait for the files to upload.

All I did was drag them. Here's the folder. But I know, because Melinda's told me, that I need to wait for that little green checkmark right there. And it's telling me it's starting to upload. So it's thinking about it.

So I might have to go get a cup of coffee-- or, hey, there it is. It's done. The little green checkbox is done there. So I'm going to open up my folder. And look at that. They are all converted.

And look, see-- .ds_store. I'm going to click that and delete it, because I don't need it, and it's 6K worth of space. Gone. So you can convert an entire folder.

Now, here's the problem most people have. They didn't know about that. They didn't know about that. And now they have a folder full of Microsoft files, just like this one. And they want to convert all of these.

And let's say there's 50 of them. Oh, my god, I don't want to have to open every one and then convert it. So what you need to do is download it. So what I'm going to do-- I'll show you how this is done. This is also in the handout.

So here it is. Here's Office Files. When I click on a folder, it gives me options up at the top. It also gives me options if I right click. So I can do it either way.

I can use the skinny snowman up at the top. And I can like Download Now. Or I like to right click, because it's faster for me. So I right click on a folder. And then I hit Download.

Now, down at the bottom in my upload-download box, it's telling me it's zipping a file. What that means is it's taking all the files, and it's compressing it into a smaller little package. It's compressing it into a small package.

As soon as it does that, you're going to get this message that says, leave. And a lot of people are going, [gasps] I don't want to leave. I want it to zip. I want a download.

It's OK. Relax. Look down at your download box. And it says, zipping one file. It's OK. You're going to hit-- as soon as that Leave button comes up, you're going to hit it. Click Leave.

And then you can see that I got the little green checkbox. And then my desktop kicks in and says, OK, here you go. We got a zip file. What do you want to do with it?

So I want to put it on my desktop. I'm actually going to rename it Office Files2. I'm having it go to my desktop. I'm hitting Save. And here is the zip file.

Let me see if I can make this a little bigger for you. Here's the zip. So it says, Office Files with the number two, zip. When you get a zip file, on most devices-- don't do this on a tablet. Don't do this on a phone. Do this on a desktop or a laptop.

What you're going to do when you get a zip file is you're just going to double click it. Double click. It's going to open. It's going to unpackage itself. See? It expanded. There we go.

Now I have a folder that I can upload into Drive and convert. Now I can drag this folder. It's full of Microsoft files. This is the one I downloaded from Drive that I went, [gasps], oh, I forgot to have Convert on. So now I can drag this into Drive, and it will convert, because now I have that Convert button on.

So if you have a folder with a bunch of files in it that you want to convert, that's what you have to do. You have to download it. It'll zip. You have to unzip the zip. So you have to uncompress it, basically.

Then, once it's unzipped, you drag that folder back into Drive. Now, here's the thing, folks. If you drag it back into Drive and you don't have this checkbox checked, you are in a vicious loop. So just make sure that your Conversion button's on before you start uploading files.

While we're here, there's a View Items Taking Up Storage link, which if you look at that, you can see all of the files in order storage used. There's also a link on the handout, which I thought was a lot easier. So I'm going to go back to the handout real quick, find out which slide it's on.

It's in the convert area. So we just went through a bunch of conversions. So why convert? Because it saves space. And there's a link on this slide, number 26, that we'll go to. It's called one.google.com.

What they're trying to do is they're trying to get you to buy more storage, if you need it. And it's actually pretty reasonable. I think it's $1.99 a month. But right here, I can tell that I'm only using-- I'm not even using a gig yet of space. I've got 15 gigs of free storage.

And right here, I've got my drive. If I wanted to, I could select this little Open New Window button here, and it will take me to my drive and give me that list that I just showed you. You could also go to your Gmail. And you can find all of the attachments.

If you have any photos, you could go to photos. And you could figure out, which ones do you need, and which ones don't you need? They also give you some tips on how you can save space on that page. So go to that page, and figure out if you've got a bunch of storage that you don't really need. But often, I don't want a Word doc to automatically convert to Google Docs, because the formatting gets messed up.

Corey, you don't have to convert. What you turn on, you can turn off, because you control this little gear box right here that I'm showing you on the slides decks. You control that. That's on you. So you decide, do I want to convert this before I upload it? If the answer is yes, then you make sure it's on.

And same question-- do I want to upload this, or do I want to convert this before I upload it? And if the answer is no, then you go to the Settings gear, and you make sure it's turned off. Is storage the only advantage to converting? I don't think so. I think there are a lot more advantages, surely, especially with our students.

When I'm using Docs with people, I know that it's free. And I know that they won't be asked to pay for anything. I know that they won't be told that they've run out of space, generally, when I'm giving assignments and stuff. So I don't have to worry about students having to buy more space on the Microsoft cloud-- not to mention having it installed, or a subscription to Microsoft, or the Apple product. There's a lot of clouds out there.

And Google is really easy to use. The interface, the layout-- everything is very, in my opinion, user friendly. You don't have to search for 5, 10, 15 hours to find the slides master. This is my personal opinion. It's easy to use. It's easy to teach.

And it doesn't take up a lot of space. So if everything that you create is a Google Doc, or a Google Slides presentation, or a Google Sheet, there's no space. There's no space. So that, in and of itself-- that makes it free for folks.

Is it possible to convert back to the original format? Absolutely, Gloria. So let's do that. What we're going to do is I'm going to go to that Office folder. So let's say I converted the resume demo. I'm going to open that.

I just double clicked on it. And this is the one that I converted last night. So I'm going to just-- this is a resume. Yeah, Melinda-- oops, spell your name correctly on a resume. It's one of the first things you look at.

So here's a resume. I made a change. Now, what if I want to download this because, again, somebody doesn't want to use Google Docs, or they don't have a Google Docs password, or account, or whatever? I know they have Microsoft.

So I go to the File menu. Go to the File menu, and I download. Within Google Docs, you have a lot of options here. These are all listed on the handout. You have the option of Microsoft Word in ODT.

ODT is just Open Document Format, if you're on a Linux machine. Rich text format-- that means all of the images are stripped out. But you've got your bold, your italic, your special font.

PDF is-- we all know PDF is Portable Document Format. So all of your pictures should stay in the same place. Plain text-- that means everything's stripped out, your bolding, your italic. Everything's stripped out. All you're left with is text. Sometimes you want that.

Web page HTML-- don't do this. You don't need it. It creates a zip file of everything. And just don't do it, OK? Just don't do it, unless you know what cascading style sheets means. If you have to ask, don't do it.

EPUB-- so the EPUB is-- it will create a book, which I found was really cool. I'm on a Mac. And when I created an e-book, it actually took the thing, the document that I had. And it made a book out of it, which was really neat. So you might want to consider that when you're creating a document, to make a book that way.

Can you edit an EPUB? No. It's like a PDF, so no can do. On this downloads-- what was it? There's something else-- oh, the PDF.

Sometimes, the objects, the pictures-- they get skewed a little bit. And I went ahead and hit the PDF, because I wanted to see what happened. I'm going to put this on my desktop.

So sometimes, this square is towards the edge. So because of that, it might get scooted over a little bit. So if that happens, what I can do as the owner of this doc is I can make pictures smaller. I can arrange them in such a way. So you might have to finesse it a little bit is what, I guess, I'm saying.