From the course: Google Drive Essential Training (2023)

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Search files and folders

Search files and folders

- [Presenter] A great reason to use Google Drive is that after all it's, Google, so you won't have to search too hard to find that file that you're looking for. Let's head up to the Search bar at the top of the screen. The easiest way to get started is to type in what you know about the file. You'll get some preliminary search results and you can either click on those or hit the enter key on your keyboard. Your search results will come up on the screen. And if you search for something that's also found in the Trash, you'll be notified on the bottom left hand side of the screen so that you can click and view and go see it. And once you've found what you're looking for, you can click directly on it to go to it. From here, you can also narrow down your search results. For example, is it something in a particular location? Is it something of a particular file type? For example, if I only want to see PDF files that contain…

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