Everyone’s favourite time-saving shortcut is coming to Google Drive
Copy-and-paste comes to Google Drive
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Googleis rolling out a new update forcloud storageservice Drive that could save users plenty of time and hassle.
The update introduces the ability to use copy, cut and paste shortcuts - Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V (and macOS equivalents) - totransfer filesbetweenGoogle Drivefolders with greater ease.
“This saves you time by allowing you to copy one or more files and move them to new locations in Drive, and across multiple tabs, with fewer clicks,” explained Google in ablog postannouncing the changes.
Google Drive copy-and-paste
As a side-effect of the transition to remote andhybrid working, many knowledge workers now depend on a larger volume of documents andspreadsheetsto collaborate effectively, which makesmanaging cloud storagesomething of a difficulty.
This was especially the case under the previous Google Drive system, whereby users would have to lean on the clunky “Move to” feature or drag-and-drop mechanics to shift multiple files between locations.
However, with the introduction of copy-and-paste keyboard shortcuts, restoring order to a mess of files and folders should become a little easier.
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As explained in the blog post, copying a file in Google Drive will also capture a link, which can be pasted into a document oremailas a simple way to share content with co-workers or external partners.
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Another feature bundled with the update is the ability to use the Ctrl + Enter shortcut to open files or folders in a newbrowsertab, providing an easy way to launch into multiple files at once or shift files between two folders.
The Google Drive update is already rolling out to workers whose companies have opted into receiving features in early-access. The rest of us should see the update take effect in the first week of June.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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