Share files from Google Drive

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

When yous share from Google Drive, y'all can control whether people can edit, comment on, or simply view the file. When you lot share content from Google Drive, the Google Drive program policies apply.

Step ane: Detect the file you desire to share

Share a single file

  1. On a computer, get to Google Bulldoze, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Click the file yous desire to share.
  3. Click Share or Share Share.

Share multiple files

Send & share Google Forms

Pace two: Choose who to share with & how they tin can use your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You lot can transport other people a link to your file and so anyone with the link can utilize it. When you lot share a link to a file, your proper name and your email volition be visible as the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file yous want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Nether "Get Link", click the Downwards arrow Down.
  4. Cull who to share the file with.
  1. To make up one's mind what people can do with your file when you share it, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Learn more about how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Re-create linkand thenWashed.
  3. Re-create and paste the link in an email or any place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file you lot want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Under "Go Link," click Alter to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people tin practise with your public link when you lot share information technology, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Washed.
  6. Re-create and paste the link in an electronic mail or any place you lot desire to share it.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account show up as bearding animals in your file.Larn more nearly anonymous animals.

Share & collaborate on a file with many people

At any fourth dimension, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file can merely be edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more than 100 instances of the file open, only the owner and some users with editing permissions tin 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 in one case, publish information technology and create a link to share to viewers. You can give edit admission to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Acquire how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes information technology visible to anybody on the web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your organization. Exist conscientious when publishing individual or sensitive info.
    • Of import: If you take an account through piece of work or school, your administrator can limit who tin can view a published file. If you're an administrator, acquire how to control who tin can publish documents to the spider web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you lot must cease publishing information technology. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to alter sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

  • Create a Google Site to share information with many people.  Y'all can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can be viewed by a big corporeality of users. Acquire how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you lot anticipate loftier traffic to your site, offset publish your document in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Larn how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If yous need to get together a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses volition be recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access only to people who demand 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.

Set up problems with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and it's crashing or non updating quickly, endeavour these troubleshooting tips:

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

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people can view, annotate, or edit

When you lot share a file with someone, you can choose what they can do with it.

  • Viewer: People can view, only can't change or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People can make comments and suggestions, but can't alter or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can brand changes, accept or reject suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change who your link is shared with

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

  • Public: Anyone tin 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 apply your file, without signing in to their Google Business relationship.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with volition be able to use it.

Related manufactures

  • Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public
  • Stop or modify how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Share folders in Google Drive
  • Find files shared with you

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