We will learn the simple process of converting documents that were created in other programs over to Google Drive. Microsoft products, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Apple files, such as Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, can be easily converted into Google file types. PDFs need no conversion and are just fine the way they are.

Let's take a look at a sample. The first thing you'll need to do is open your Drive to the place you'd like to have these converted documents stored. Once your Drive is open, you'll simply pull in the documents you'd like to convert. You may have them on a flash drive or on your desktop; wherever they live, you can simply drag and drop them into Google Drive.

I have some documents on my desktop. The first is a PowerPoint presentation that I'm pulling into Google, and notice that it is automatically changed to Google Slides. My second document was created in Apple Pages. Notice that the Google Doc file type, which would be the parallel product to Apple Pages, did not appear here. This file has not yet successfully been converted to a Google Doc file type.

There are some intermediate steps that have to be taken, and I'll show you those here. What we'll end up doing is using CloudConvert to convert the Pages file to a Microsoft Word file, and then convert the Word file over to Google Docs.

Let's watch it happen here. I'm being prompted to do something because the file couldn't download. I'm going to open the file with CloudConvert. I'm going to tell Pages to convert to a DOC file, and this is a Microsoft DOC file. It's going to take it a moment to convert, and once the conversion happens, I'm able to download the file. I can now pull that download into my Google Drive. Notice that it came in as we told it to, as a Microsoft file type (.doc).

When I open it, I can further convert it by opening the file menu and going down to "Save as Google Docs." When I refresh, I now see that I have a Google file type. You may have to clean up some formatting shifts when converting your documents, but your content will all be there, ready to edit and use using Google tools.