Files you can store in Google Drive

Modified on Wed, 17 May, 2017 at 6:22 PM

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)