Files you can store in Google Drive

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Files you can store in Google Drive

File sizes

These are the documents, spreadsheets, and presentation sizes you can store in Google Drive.

• Documents: Up to 1.02 million characters. If you convert a text document to Google Docs format, it can be up to 50 MB.
• Spreadsheets: Up to 2 million cells for spreadsheets that are created in or converted to Google Sheets.
• Presentations: Up to 100 MB for presentations converted to Google Slides.
• All other files: Up to 5 TB.

Supported file types

These are the most common file types you can view in Google Drive:

General files

• Archive files (.ZIP, .RAR, tar, gzip)
• Audio formats (MP3, MPEG, WAV, .ogg)
• Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP)
• Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS)
• Text files (.TXT)
• Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg)

Adobe files

• Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
• Illustrator (.AI)
• Photoshop (.PSD)
• Portable Document Format (.PDF)
• PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
• Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF) - best with RGB .TIFF images
• TrueType (.TTF)

Microsoft files

• Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
• PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
• Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
• XML Paper Specification (.XPS)

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