Share files from Google Drive

You can share the files and folders that you lot store in Google Bulldoze with anyone.

When you share from Google Drive, you lot tin can control whether people can edit, annotate on, or only view the file. When yous share content from Google Bulldoze, the Google Drive programme policies apply.

Step 1: Find the file yous desire to share

Share a single file

  1. On a computer, get to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Click the file you want to share.
  3. Click Share or Share Share.

Share multiple files

Send & share Google Forms

Step 2: Choose who to share with & how they can utilize your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You can send other people a link to your file and then anyone with the link can use information technology. When y'all share a link to a file, your name and your email will be visible as the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file you desire to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenBecome link.
  3. Nether "Get Link", click the Downward arrow Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To decide what people tin can do with your file when yous share it, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Acquire more about how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Copy linkand thenWashed.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an email or any place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file y'all want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Under "Get Link," click Change to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people can do with your public link when you share it, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Done.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an electronic mail or any place y'all want to share it.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account testify up as anonymous animals in your file.Learn more near bearding animals.

Share & interact on a file with many people

At whatsoever time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file tin only be edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more than 100 instances of the file open, just the owner and some users with editing permissions can edit the file.

To share and collaborate on a file with a very wide audience:

Publish the file

  • If you need many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers. You can give edit access to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Learn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your system. Be conscientious when publishing individual or sensitive info.
    • Important: If y'all have an business relationship through work or school, your administrator can limit who tin view a published file. If you're an administrator, learn how to control who can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must stop publishing information technology. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, acquire how to change sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

  • Create a Google Site to share information with many people.  You tin embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can be viewed past a large amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you conceptualize loftier traffic to your site, first publish your certificate in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Learn how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Class. Responses volition exist recorded in a Google Sheet. Requite edit access only to people who need to piece of work with the responses. To let more than 100 people view the responses, publish the spreadsheet to the spider web and create a link to share with viewers. Learn how to publish a file.

Gear up bug with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and it's crashing or not updating apace, try these troubleshooting tips:

  • Instead of allowing people to comment on a certificate or spreadsheet, create a Google Form to collect feedback. Acquire how to create a Google Form.
  • If you're making a copy of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Larn how to make a re-create.
  • Delete older information or motion data into a new document.
  • Ask viewers to close the document when they aren't using it.
  • Include only the about of import information in a published document. Shorter documents load faster.
  • Reduce the amount of people with edit access to a document.
  • If collecting information from multiple documents, create a new, view-only document to share with a large number of people.

Limit how a file is shared

Cull if people can view, annotate, or edit

When y'all share a file with someone, y'all tin choose what they tin can do with it.

  • Viewer: People can view, simply can't change or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People can make comments and suggestions, but tin't change or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can make changes, accept or refuse suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change who your link is shared with

When you share a link to a file, you control how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Business relationship is through work, schoolhouse, or Gmail.

  • Public: Anyone can search on Google and get access to your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link can use your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with will exist able to apply it.

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