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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