Google Docs is perhaps the most widely used and revered online office application in the online world and thus, Google takes great pride and care in providing its users with some of the most rudimentary features of the office suite. Now, according to the Official Google Blog, new updates to Google Docs are being slipped into the mainstream user base to enhance the functions and the user experience at the same time.

One of the most important and most sought after features of Google Docs is the ‘Shared Folder’ feature. Through which, users can immediately share an entire folder with other users, thereby eliminating the need of individual file sharing, that at times, becomes incredibly cumbersome. Users can add files to the Shared Folder and give access permissions to their desired users, who would be updated the moment a document is shared via the Shared Folder.

Along with the Share Folder option, Google has also incorporated multiple file uploads, meaning that users now do not have to upload each document separately, but can upload file clusters in one go.

How to upload files:

After logging into the Google Docs account, click on “Select files to upload” and just like in Windows OS, press “Shift” or Control” to select multiple files. After selecting the files, simply click on “Start Upload” and the progress bar against each file will notify you of the uploading. One of the main benefits of the Share Folder features is that, once a user sets access permissions to the shared folder, the permissions become a protocol for all the files stored inside the Shared Folder.

According to Google,

“The new “Folders” dialog let’s you completely control which folder or folders an item is in. And when you’re in a folder, you also have the “Move to” dialog which lets you quickly move an item to a different folder.”

Via ZDNet, LifeHacker & Google Docs.